Digital project file presentation

• US 10,553,031 B2
• Filed: 12/06/2017
• Issued: 02/04/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Alt, Gregory L., Sugden, Laura K., Chiu, Shih-Sang Carnaven, Ouellet, Maxime, Ng, Denise
• Primary Examiner(s): Brier, Jeffery A
• Application Number:
  US15/833,918
• Publication Number:
  US 20190172261A1
• Time in Patent Office: 790 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/20 Editing of 3D images, e.g. changing shapes or colours, aligning objects or positioning parts
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2219/004 Annotating, labelling
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

Examples are disclosed that relate to representing a digital project file. One example provides a computing device comprising a logic device and a storage device holding instructions executable to obtain a digital project file comprising a geometric representation of a real physical space, and a user-created annotation associated with a location in the representation. The instructions are further executable to display a representation of the file in a first rendering format, receive a request to display a representation of the file in a second rendering format in which one or more real surfaces of the real physical space are displayed as a virtual rendering, the one or more real surfaces not being displayed as the virtual rendering the first digital rendering format, and, in response to the request, display the representation of the file in the second format.

Claims

1. A computing device, comprising:

a logic device comprising a processor; and

a storage device holding instructions executable by the processor to

obtain a digital project file, the digital project file comprising

a geometric representation of a real physical space, and

a user-created annotation associated with a location in the geometric representation of the real physical space;

display a representation of the digital project file in a first digital rendering format;

receive a request to display a representation of the digital project file in a second digital rendering format in which one or more real surfaces of the real physical space are displayed as a virtual rendering, the one or more real surfaces not being displayed as the virtual rendering in the first digital rendering format; and

in response to the request, display the representation of the digital project file including the annotation in the second digital rendering format.

2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the instructions are executable to display the representation of the digital project file in the first digital rendering format as three-dimensional imagery via a mixed reality head-mounted display device.

3. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the instructions are executable to display the representation of the digital project file in the second digital rendering format as three-dimensional imagery via a virtual reality head-mounted display device.

4. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the instructions are executable to display the representation of the digital project file in the second digital rendering format as two-dimensional imagery via a two-dimensional display device.

5. The computing device of claim 4, wherein the instructions are executable to display the representation of the digital project file in the second digital rendering format as a plan view.

6. The computing device of claim 5, wherein the plan view comprises a representation of the annotation.

7. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the digital project file further comprises image data that is spatially associated with the geometric representation of the real physical space, and wherein the one or more real surfaces of the real physical space are displayed using the image data.

8. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the instructions are executable to display the representation of the digital project file in the second digital rendering format from the perspective of a virtual camera.

9. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the digital project file further comprises a virtual object associated with a location in the geometric representation of the real physical space, the virtual object being displayable as a mixed reality virtual image.

10. The computing device of claim 9, wherein the annotation is associated with the virtual object.

11. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the annotation further comprises a control selectable to output a representation of a voice recording.

12. The computing device of claim 11, wherein the instructions executable to output the representation of the voice recording are executable to

when the voice recording meets a first condition, playback the voice recording, and

when the voice recording meets a second condition, display a text transcription of the voice recording.

13. On a computing device, a method, comprising:

obtaining a digital project file, the digital project file comprising

a geometric representation of a real physical space, and

a user-created annotation associated with a location in the geometric representation of the real physical space;

displaying a representation of the digital project file in a first digital rendering format;

receiving a request to display a representation of the digital project file in a second digital rendering format in which one or more real surfaces of the real physical space are displayed as a virtual rendering, the one or more real surfaces not being displayed as the virtual rendering in the first digital rendering format; and

in response to the request, displaying the representation of the digital project file in the second digital rendering format including the annotation, wherein one or more real surfaces of the real physical space are displayed as a virtual rendering in the second digital rendering format and not in the first digital rendering format.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the representation of the digital project file in the first digital rendering format is displayed on a see-through display device.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the representation of the digital project file in the first digital rendering format is displayed on an opaque display device.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the digital project file further comprises image data that is spatially associated with the geometric representation of the real physical space, and wherein the one or more real surfaces of the real physical space are displayed as the virtual rendering using the image data in the second digital rendering format.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the annotation further comprises a control selectable to output a representation of a voice recording.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein outputting the representation of the voice recording comprises,

when the voice recording meets a first condition, playing back the voice recording, and

when the voice recording meets a second condition, displaying a text transcription of the voice recording.

19. A computing device, comprising:

a logic device comprising a processor; and

a storage device holding instructions executable by the processor to

obtain a digital project file, the digital project file comprising

a geometric representation of a real physical space, and

a user-created annotation associated with a location in the geometric representation of the real physical space;

receive a request to display a representation of the digital project file;

based on the computing device being a first device type, present the annotation in a first annotation format within the geometric representation of the real physical space; and

based on the computing device being a second device type that is different from the first device type, present the annotation in a second annotation format within the geometric representation of the real physical space.

20. The computing device of claim 19, wherein the instructions executable to present the annotation in the first annotation format are executable to playback a voice recording associated with the annotation, and wherein the instructions executable to present the annotation in the second annotation format are executable to display a text transcription of the voice recording.