Microsoft Patents

Augmented And Virtual Reality

Microsoft filed these patents around Augmented And Virtual Reality in the last 5 years

# Patent No. Short Description
1. US11461955B2 A method for ray-casting in augmented reality environments that enables intuitive targeting and selection of virtual objects using hand gestures
2. US11210838B2 Improving quality of 4D reconstruction technology for virtual and augmented reality applications by fusing depth maps to generate dynamic 3D models, applying texture values to dynamic 3D models, and rendering views of textured dynamic 3D models
3. US11010016B2 A mixed reality device that provides a mixed reality view to an operator
4. US11017231B2 Enabling user specified operations on virtual objects in a head mounted display (HMD) using natural language input
5. US11294472B2 Augmenting a two-stage hand gesture input by providing an affordance after the first stage of the gesture
6. US20200111256A1 Providing a virtual anchor object in a VR environment that corresponds to a real-world anchor object
7. US11572975B2 Display system that allows rotating and translating a display between vertical and horizontal orientations
8. US10602298B2 Parametric directional propagation concepts for generating convincing sound in virtual environments
9. US20190213792A1 Mixed reality system that presents virtual objects in physical relation to anchoring body parts
10. US20200304375A1 Generating digital twins of physical environments using depth cameras and depth sensing devices like head-mounted displays
11. US10930275B2 Disambiguating natural language commands in AR/VR environments to improve accuracy of user interactions
12. US20230245395A1 A human-computer interface (HCI) for viewing a 3D representation of a real-world environment from different, changing, and/or multiple perspectives
13. US10866422B2 MicroLED display system for head-mounted displays (HMDs) that reduces form factor by using separate monochrome MicroLED projectors for red, green, and blue images that are input into a single waveguide
14. US11287947B2 Contextual input processing for 3D environments that allows content to be interacted with using a wide variety of input devices
15. US20210390767A1 Computing images of an HMD wearer's face as if not wearing the HMD using face capture devices in the HMD and machine learning

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