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User-defined virtual interaction space and manipulation of virtual cameras with vectors

  • US 10,579,155 B2
  • Filed: 05/06/2019
  • Issued: 03/03/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of manipulating virtual objects in a three-dimensional (3D) sensor space, the method including:

  • creating a virtual vector field in response to a control gesture that makes swirling motions in a 3D sensor space, wherein the virtual vector field is a vortex;

    creating a plurality of virtual objects in response to subsequent control gestures that make circular sweeps in the 3D sensor space and define object vectors on respective virtual objects;

    compounding interactions of the vector field with the object vectors based on their respective magnitudes; and

    adjusting an effect of the vortex on the virtual objects in proportion to the interactions of the vector field and the object vectors to cause the object vectors of the respective virtual objects thereby bringing one or more of the virtual objects closer to a center of the vortex or pushing one or more of the virtual objects away from the center of the vortex.

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