Microsoft Patents

Gaming

Microsoft filed these patents around Gaming in the last 5 years

# Patent No. Short Description
1. US10569174B1 Selecting and implementing graphical overlays on touch screens to improve the user experience of streaming video games
2. US20210006835A1 Improving video quality for streaming games by identifying and enhancing areas of interest while blurring areas of non-interest
3. US11287947B2 Contextual input processing for 3D environments that allows content to be interacted with using a wide variety of input devices
4. US10740924B2 Tracking the pose of a handheld object like a game controller when its visual tracking is impaired or unavailable, while also preventing unrealistic drift
5. US10449461B1 Annotating video frames generated by a video game in real-time using an overlay that automatically identifies and highlights game elements based on remote user inputs
6. US10928975B2 A method for interacting with three-dimensional (3D) virtual environments using handheld 3D hand pose tracking devices
7. US10776933B2 Tracking the movement of real-world objects in mixed reality environments when the objects move out of view of a device
8. US11794116B2 Enhancing session participation in online streams/activities by automatically queuing and managing players between a streamer client device and guest player client devices
9. US20220212100A1 A system for allowing remote play of interactive game applications on a game server by a user viewing a video stream on a client device
10. US20220291822A1 Sharing user interface customizations across applications to avoid tedious individual control changes for many UIs
11. US20220342960A1 A system for providing digital rentals of applications like games to users
12. US11595773B2 Efficiently rendering directional acoustic effects in real-time using perceptual parameters that represent how sound is perceived at different source and listener locations within a scene
13. US20200346121A1 Sharing in-game moments between users in the form of individual shares of in-game moments, as well as the sharing of in-game moments in groups, such as in playlists
14. US20230075560A1 Interacting with holographic objects inside a holographic volume by moving hands
15. US10937218B2 A method of rendering potential collisions between virtual objects and physical objects if animations are implemented

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