Virtual/augmented reality transition system and method

    公开(公告)号:US10254826B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-09

    申请号:US15605582

    申请日:2017-05-25

    Applicant: Google Inc.

    Abstract: A system and method of operating an audio visual system generating a virtual immersive experience may include an electronic user device in communication with a tracking device that may track a user's physical movement in a real world space and translate the tracked physical movement into corresponding movement in the virtual world generated by the user device. The system may detect when a user and the user device are approaching a boundary of a tracking area and automatically initiate a transition out of the virtual world and into the real world. A smooth, or graceful, transition between the virtual world and the real world as the user encounters this boundary may avoid disorientation which may occur as a user continues to move in the real world, while motion appears to have stopped upon reaching the tracking boundary.

    Device designation for audio input monitoring

    公开(公告)号:US10210868B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-19

    申请号:US15489288

    申请日:2017-04-17

    Applicant: Google Inc.

    Abstract: A computing device comprises at least one processor, and at least one module operable by the at least one processor to designate a particular computing device from a plurality of computing devices to process audio input, wherein the computing device comprises a first computing device from the plurality of computing devices. The at least one module may be further operable by the at least one processor to, if the particular computing device is not the first computing device, cease processing of audio input, and if the particular computing device is the first computing device, receive first audio input and process the first audio input to determine whether the first audio input includes a predetermined audio command.

    Context-based volume adjustment
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09798512B1

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-24

    申请号:US15042884

    申请日:2016-02-12

    Applicant: Google Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F3/165 G06F3/167

    Abstract: In general, this disclosure is directed to techniques for adjusting various types of volumes based on audio present in a currently executing application. A computing device not currently outputting audio for playback at an audio output device operatively coupled to the computing device receives an indication of user input to adjust a volume level. Responsive to receiving the indication of the user input, the computing device determines context data based on content associated with the currently executing application. The computing device predicts, based on the context data, a type of audio that is planned to be output for playback at the audio output device. The type of audio is one of many types of audio capable of being output for playback. The computing device adjusts, based on the type of the audio, a respective volume level associated with the audio type.

    Intuitive Preview of Upcoming Navigational Instructions

    公开(公告)号:US20160116297A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-04-28

    申请号:US14990145

    申请日:2016-01-07

    Applicant: Google Inc.

    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an intuitive preview of upcoming navigational instructions are provided. One example method for providing navigational instruction includes obtaining, by one or more computing devices, navigational information describing a sequence of navigational maneuvers associated with a route. The method includes determining, by the one or more computing devices, a distance between each navigational maneuver and the previous sequential navigational maneuver. The method includes displaying, by the one or more computing devices, a user interface providing a sequence of indicators respectively representing the sequence of navigational maneuvers. A space between each indicator and the previous sequential indicator is proportional to the distance between the navigational maneuver represented by such indicator and the navigational maneuver represented by the previous sequential indicator.

    Intuitive preview of upcoming navigational instructions
    6.
    发明授权
    Intuitive preview of upcoming navigational instructions 有权
    直观的预览即将到来的导航说明

    公开(公告)号:US09243921B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-01-26

    申请号:US14267235

    申请日:2014-05-01

    Applicant: Google Inc.

    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an intuitive preview of upcoming navigational instructions are provided. One example method for providing navigational instruction includes obtaining, by one or more computing devices, navigational information describing a sequence of navigational maneuvers associated with a route. The method includes determining, by the one or more computing devices, a distance between each navigational maneuver and the previous sequential navigational maneuver. The method includes displaying, by the one or more computing devices, a user interface providing a sequence of indicators respectively representing the sequence of navigational maneuvers. A space between each indicator and the previous sequential indicator is proportional to the distance between the navigational maneuver represented by such indicator and the navigational maneuver represented by the previous sequential indicator.

    Abstract translation: 提供了提供对即将到来的导航指令的直观预览的系统和方法。 用于提供导航指令的一个示例性方法包括通过一个或多个计算设备获得描述与路线相关联的导航操作序列的导航信息。 该方法包括由一个或多个计算设备确定每个导航操作与先前的顺序导航操作之间的距离。 该方法包括由一个或多个计算设备显示提供分别表示导航操作序列的指示符序列的用户界面。 每个指示器与先前的顺序指示器之间的空间与由该指示器表示的导航机动与由先前的顺序指示器表示的导航机动之间的距离成比例。

    Adjusting video rendering rate of virtual reality content and processing of a stereoscopic image

    公开(公告)号:US10229540B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-12

    申请号:US14978320

    申请日:2015-12-22

    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.

    Abstract: An example technique may include performing, by a virtual reality application provided on a computing device, video rendering at a first video rendering rate based on updating an entire image on a screen of the computing device at a first update rate, determining that a performance of the video rendering is less than a threshold, performing, based on the determining, video rendering at a second video rendering rate by updating a first portion of the image at the first update rate, and by updating a second portion of the image at a second update rate that is less than the first update rate. Another example technique may include shifting, during an eye blinking period, one or both of a left eye image and a right eye image to reduce a disparity between a left viewed object and a right viewed object.

    Dynamic switching and merging of head, gesture and touch input in virtual reality

    公开(公告)号:US10101803B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-16

    申请号:US14836311

    申请日:2015-08-26

    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.

    Abstract: In a system for dynamic switching and merging of head, gesture and touch input in virtual reality, a virtual object may be selected by a user in response to a first input implementing one of a number of different input modes. Once selected, with focus established on the first object by the first input, the first object may be manipulated in the virtual world in response to a second input implementing another of the different input modes. In response to a third input, another object may be selected, and focus may be shifted from the first object to the second object in response to a third input if, for example, a priority value of the third input is higher than a priority value of the first input that established focus on the first object. If the priority value of the third input is less than the priority value of the first input that established focus on the first object, focus may remain on the first object. In response to certain trigger inputs, a display of virtual objects may be shifted between a far field display and a near field display to accommodate a particular mode of interaction with and manipulation of the virtual objects.

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