Patents by Inventor Andrew Gerald Austin

Andrew Gerald Austin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • INTERACTION BETWEEN A TOUCH-SENSITIVE DEVICE AND A MIXED-REALITY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180150997
    Abstract: A mixed-reality device includes a head-mounted display, a communication interface configured to wirelessly communicate with a remote touch-sensitive device, a logic machine, and a storage machine. The storage machine holds instructions executable by the logic machine to receive a pose of the touch-sensitive device in the physical space, receive, via the communication interface, a control signal that is based on a touch input to the touch-sensitive device, and in response to receiving the control signal, visually present, via the head-mounted display, a virtual object based on the pose of the touch-sensitive device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Andrew Gerald Austin