On January first I had noted in a patent report that I would try to clear out our Microsoft backlog in the coming weeks. To further catch up, today's report covers three interesting new granted patents issued to Microsoft back in late December 2019. All three provide s brief summary, key graphics and a link to the full patent.
Expandable Enclosure for Electronic Device Resonance Box
Microsoft was granted patent 10,524,033, titled: "Expandable enclosure for electronic device resonance box." Patently Mobile just posted a patent application report on this invention back on Nov. 06, 2019 titled "Microsoft's Surface Pro X needs better Audio and a new Speaker Concept just popped up at the U.S. Patent Office." Both our cover graphic and the one below are from that patent report.
Stylus with Visible Light Regions
Microsoft was granted patent 10,503,279, titled: "Stylus with visible light regions." This granted patent covers a future Surface Pen. Generally speaking, the light-emitting elements on the exterior of the Surface Pen may be employed to illuminate the one or more visible light regions to indicate different notifications, states, operations, properties, actions or behaviors.
Microsoft's patent FIG. 1 below is an illustration of an environment in an example implementation that is operable to employ stylus with visible light regions techniques; FIG. 3 which illustrates additional example configurations of the stylus of FIG. 1 with visible light regions; FIG. 4 is a flow diagram depicting an example procedure which light-emitting elements are employed to selectively illuminate one or more visible light regions of a stylus in order to indicate a current digital ink color of the stylus in accordance with one or more implementations.
Display Update-Time Reduction for a Near-Eye Display (NED)
Microsoft was granted Patent 10,514,541, titled: "Display update-time reduction for a Near-Eye Display (NED)." An example of a near-eye display (NED) device is a head mounted display (HMD) device. A NED device may be used for displaying image data of virtual objects in a field of view with real objects for an augmented or mixed reality experience. In a virtual reality system, a NED may display computer controlled imagery independently of a real world relationship. In another example, a near-eye display may be used in applications for enhancing sight like an infrared imaging device, e.g. a night vision device. The invention could also be used in mixed reality gaming as noted in the patent figures below. The granted patent covers technology that provides one or more methods for reducing display update time for a NED device.
Microsoft FIG. 1A below is a block diagram depicting example components of one embodiment of a near-eye display (NED) device system; FIG. 2A is a side view of an eyeglass temple of a frame in an embodiment of the NED device having an optical see-through AR display, and the NED device being embodied as eyeglasses providing support for hardware and software components.; FIG. 2B is a top view of an embodiment of a display optical system of the embodiment of the NED device; and FIG. 2C is a block diagram of an embodiment of a communication module which may be used for receiving data by a NED system or transmitting data by another computer system to a NED system.
Microsoft's patent FIG. 4C above illustrates another version of the helicopter example in which a gesture indicates a point of focus in the NED field of view in context with a future Xbox gaming console, computer system or a cloud based gaming service.
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