US 9,229,540 B2
Deriving input from six degrees of freedom interfacesGeneral
US 9,229,540 B2
Deriving input from six degrees of freedom interfaces
Tech Center:
2600 Communications
Examiner:
Seokyun Moon
Art Unit:
2694 Selective Visual Display Systems
Agent:
ELECTRONIC SCRIPTING PRODUCTS, INC.
Inventors:
Michael J. Mandella; Hector H. Gonzalez-Banos; Marek Alboszta
Assignee:
Priority:
08/22/11
Filed:
08/22/11
Granted:
01/05/16
Expiration:
01/10/25
Abstract
The present invention relates to interfaces and methods for producing input for software applications based on the absolute pose of an item manipulated or worn by a user in a three-dimensional environment. Absolute pose in the sense of the present invention means both the position and the orientation of the item as described in a stable frame defined in that three-dimensional environment. The invention describes how to recover the absolute pose with optical hardware and methods, and how to map at least one of the recovered absolute pose parameters to the three translational and three rotational degrees of freedom available to the item to generate useful input. The applications that can most benefit from the interfaces and methods of the invention involve 3D virtual spaces including augmented reality and mixed reality environments.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
G06G06F3/03545G06F