System and method for augmented and virtual reality

• US 10,594,747 B1
• Filed: 11/04/2019
• Issued: 03/17/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
• Inventors: Miller, Samuel A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Meky, Moustafa M
• Application Number:
  US16/673,880
• Publication Number:
  US 20200076863A1
• Time in Patent Office: 134 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/211 using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers or gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/213 comprising photodetecting means, e.g. cameras, photodiodes or infrared cells A63F13/219, A63F13/655 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/215 comprising means for detecting acoustic signals, e.g. using a microphone
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/216 using geographical information, e.g. location of the game device or player using GPS
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/285 Generating tactile feedback signals via the game input device, e.g. force feedback
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/35 Details of game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/424 involving acoustic input signals, e.g. by using the results of pitch or rhythm extraction or voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/428 involving motion or position input signals, e.g. signals representing the rotation of an input controller or a player's arm motions sensed by accelerometers or gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/655 by importing photos, e.g. of the player
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/812 Ball games, e.g. soccer or baseball
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/92 Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1093 using visible light
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/5553 user representation in the game field, e.g. avatar
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/577 for watching a game played by other players
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6607 for animating game characters, e.g. skeleton kinematics
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/695 Imported photos, e.g. of the player
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8082 Virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/011 Emotion or mood input determined on the basis of sensed human body parameters such as pulse, heart rate or beat, temperature of skin, facial expressions, iris, voice pitch, brain activity patterns
• 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 3/012 : Head tracking input arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 : Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 : Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• 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: G06T 19/006 : Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 : where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 : based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 : Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/14 : Multichannel or multilink protocols

Abstract

One embodiment is directed to a system for enabling two or more users to interact within a virtual world comprising virtual world data, comprising a computer network comprising one or more computing devices, the one or more computing devices comprising memory, processing circuitry, and software stored at least in part in the memory and executable by the processing circuitry to process at least a portion of the virtual world data; wherein at least a first portion of the virtual world data originates from a first user virtual world local to a first user, and wherein the computer network is operable to transmit the first portion to a user device for presentation to a second user, such that the second user may experience the first portion from the location of the second user, such that aspects of the first user virtual world are effectively passed to the second user.

Claims

1. A system for interacting with a virtual world comprising virtual world data, the system comprising:

a first user device operatively coupled to a computer network comprising one or more computing devices, the one or more computing devices comprising;

one or more processors, and

memory storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to process a first portion of the virtual world data;

wherein the first user device is configured to;

receive, from a first user, a first input,

transmit the first input to the computer network,

receive, from a local environment of the first user device, a second input, and

transmit the second input to the computer network,

wherein one or more of the one or more computing devices are configured to alter the virtual world data, based on at least one of the first input and the second input, to produce altered virtual world data,

wherein the first user device is further configured to present virtual content, based on the altered virtual world data, to the first user, and

wherein presenting the virtual content to the first user comprises presenting a visual rendering of the virtual world in a 3D format.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first input and the second input comprises audio data, and altering the virtual world data comprises altering the virtual world data based on the audio data.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the first user device comprises a see-through display, and presenting the virtual content to the first user further comprises presenting the virtual content to the first user via the see-through display.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the virtual content comprises one or more of visual content, audio content, and haptic content.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the first input comprises one or more of gesture data, audio data, geographic location data, and optical characteristic data.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the second input comprises one or more of audio data from the local environment and visual data from a physical object in the local environment.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a second user device configured to present virtual content, based on the altered virtual world data, to a second user.