System and method for providing simulated environment

• US 10,713,848 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2017
• Issued: 07/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Original Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Inventors: Lee, Hsin-Hao, Lee, Ching-Hao
• Primary Examiner(s): Yang, Nan-Ying
• Application Number:
  US15/842,832
• Publication Number:
  US 20180293800A1
• Time in Patent Office: 943 Days
• 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 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00

Abstract

Present disclosure relates to a system for providing a simulated environment and a method thereof. The system comprises a first wearable device and a computing unit. The first wearable device is configured to output a first scenario of the simulated environment. The computing unit is configured to provide an indication corresponding to a mobile object in the first scenario when the mobile object is detectable in a predetermined distance distanced from the first wearable device.

Claims

1. A system for providing a simulated environment, comprising:

a processor;

a first wearable device comprising a display, configured to output a first scenario of the simulated environment provided by the processor for a first user; and

a second wearable device comprising a display, configured to output a second scenario of the simulated environment provided by the processor for a second user;

wherein when a second coordinate of the second user in the simulated environment is detectable in a predetermined distance distanced from a first coordinate of the first user in the simulated environment, the processor provides an indication corresponding to the second user in the first scenario, and refresh the indication according to a motion of the second user in the first scenario,

wherein the indication is an avatar corresponding to the second user, and

wherein the processor is further configured to refresh the avatar corresponding to the motion of the second user in the first scenario when the motion is being detected exceeding a motion threshold, and the processor is further configured to reduce a refresh rate for refreshing the avatar corresponding to the motion when the motion is being detected lowering the motion threshold.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor stops to illustrate the avatar in the first scenario when the second coordinate of the second user in the simulated environment is no longer detectable in the predetermined distance distanced from the first coordinate of the first user in the simulated environment.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor stops to refresh the avatar in the first scenario when the second coordinate of the second user in the simulated environment is no longer detectable in the predetermined distance distanced from the first coordinate of the first user in the simulated environment.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the motion threshold is determined according to height, length of arm, length of feet or step length of the second user.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the predetermined distance is determined according to height, length of arm, length of feet or step length measured from a user who carries the first wearable device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the indication is a token corresponding to the second user.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein a distance between the second coordinate of the second user in the simulated environment and the first coordinate of the first user in the simulated environment is detected by the second wearable device, an individual detector or the first wearable device.

8. A method for providing a simulated environment, comprising:

outputting, by a first wearable device comprising a display, a first scenario of the simulated environment provided by a processor for a first user; and

outputting, by a second wearable device comprising a display, a second scenario of the simulated environment provided by the processor for a second user;

wherein when a second coordinate of the second user in the simulated environment is detectable in a predetermined distance distanced from a first coordinate of the first user in the simulated environment, providing, by the processor, an indication corresponding to the second user in the first scenario; and

refreshing, by the processor, the indication according to a motion of the second user in the first scenario,

wherein the indication is an avatar corresponding to the second user, and the method further comprising;

refreshing, by the processor, the avatar corresponding to the motion of the second user in the first scenario when the motion is being detected exceeding a motion threshold; and

reducing, by the processor, a refresh rate for refreshing the avatar corresponding to the motion when the motion is being detected lowering the motion threshold.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

stopping, by the processor, to illustrate the avatar in the first scenario when the second coordinate of the second user in the simulated environment is no longer detectable in the predetermined distance distanced from the first coordinate of the first user in the simulated environment.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

stopping, by the processor, to refresh the avatar in the first scenario when the second coordinate of the second user in the simulated environment is no longer detectable in the predetermined distance distanced from the first coordinate of the first user in the simulated environment.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the motion threshold is determined according to height, length of arm, length of feet or step length of the second user.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the predetermined distance is determined according to height, length of arm, length of feet or step length measured from a user who carries the first wearable device.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the indication is a token corresponding to the second user.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein a distance between the second coordinate of the second user in the simulated environment and the first coordinate of the first user in the simulated environment is detected by the second wearable device, an individual detector or the first wearable device.