Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Passive locators for a virtual reality headset
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Application No.: US15490624Application Date: 2017-04-18
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Publication No.: US10198032B2Publication Date: 2019-02-05
- Inventor: Matt Lee Thomas
- Applicant: Oculus VR, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Fenwick & West LLP
- Main IPC: G09G5/00
- IPC: G09G5/00 ; G06F1/16 ; G06T19/00 ; G02B27/01 ; G02B5/12 ; G06T7/73 ; G06F3/01 ; G06T7/246

Abstract:
A virtual reality (VR) headset includes a plurality of marker groups each corresponding to a different location on the VR headset. Each marker group includes one or more passive locators having positions relative to each other. Passive locators included in a marker group are configured to reflect one or more bands of light emitted by a source device. A VR system determines positions of passive locators relative to each other in a marker group and bands of light reflected by the passive locators included in the marker group to determine a location on the VR headset. Based on the location on the VR headset, the VR system determines a position of the VR headset and identifies content to provide to the VR headset.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170220064A1 PASSIVE LOCATORS FOR A VIRTUAL REALITY HEADSET Public/Granted day:2017-08-03
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