Mixed-reality image capture

US9824499B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Shawn Crispin Wright · Sammamish, US
• Dan Osborn · Woodinville, US
• Alberto E. Cerriteno · Bothell, US
• Bofan Hsu · Bothell, US
• Evan L. Jones · Kirkland, US
• Joe Thompson · Seattle, US
• Forest Woodcroft Gouin · Seattle, US
• Megan Saunders · Kirkland, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 23, 2015
• Grant date: Nov 21, 2017
• Expiry date: Aug 26, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B2027/0198
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A head-mounted display includes a visible-light camera configured to collect a visible-light image of a physical space, a surface sensor configured to measure one or more surface parameters of the physical space, a see-through display configured to visually present an augmentation image while light from the physical space passes through the see-through display to a user eye, and an augmented-reality engine. The augmented-reality engine may be configured to identify a surface of the physical space from the one or more measured surface parameters, compose a mixed-reality image that includes the augmentation image overlaid on the visible-light image, and visually present, via the see-through display, the mixed-reality image in alignment with the identified surface.