Portable holographic user interface for an interactive 3D environment

US9952656B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Adam G. Poulos · Redmond, US
• Cameron Brown · Redmond, US
• Aaron Krauss · Snoqualmie, US
• Marcus Ghaly · Kirkland, US
• Michael R. Thomas · San Francisco, US
• Jonathan Paulovich · Redmond, US
• Daniel McCulloch · Kirkland, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 21, 2015
• Grant date: Apr 24, 2018
• Expiry date: Aug 21, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03H2001/2284
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and corresponding apparatus to enable a user of a display system to manipulate holographic objects. Multiple holographic user interface objects capable of being independently manipulated by a user are displayed to the user, overlaid on a real-world view of a 3D physical space in which the user is located. In response to a first user action, the holographic user interface objects are made to appear to be combined into a holographic container object that appears at a first location in the 3D physical space. In response to the first user action or a second user action, the holographic container object is made to appear to relocate to a second location in the 3D physical space. The holographic user interface objects are then made to appear to deploy from the holographic container object when the holographic container object appears to be located at the second location.