PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16040518
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["345", "419000"]

Abstract:
A computer-implemented technique is described herein for discriminatively apprising the user of the existence of some, but not necessarily all, physical objects in a physical environment in the course of the user's interaction with a virtual environment. In operation, the technique allows the user to selectively identify one or more objects-of-interest, such as people, walls, computing devices, etc. The technique then uses a scene analysis component to automatically detect the presence of the selected objects-of-interest in the physical environment, while the user interacts with the virtual environment. The technique provides alert information which notifies the user of the existence of any objects-of-interest that it detects. By virtue of the above-summarized strategy, the technique can apprise the user of objects-of-interest in the user's vicinity without cluttering the user's virtual experience with extraneous information pertaining to the physical environment.

Claim (Index 30):
A computer-readable storage medium for storing computer-readable instructions, the computer-readable instructions, when executed by one or more hardware processors, performing a method that comprises:\n receiving object-selection information in response to interaction by the user with an input device, the object-selection information specifying one or more objects-of-interest, said one or more objects-of-interest corresponding to a subset of objects within a set of selectable objects; receiving environment input information that represents a physical environment from at least one environment-sensing device, the physical environment corresponding to a physical setting in which the user uses a virtual reality device to interact with a virtual environment; analyzing the environment input information using a scene analysis component to determine whether any of said one or more objects-of-interest are present in the physical environment at a current time, said analyzing producing, upon an affirmative determination result, output information which identifies at least one detected object, the scene analysis component using one or more machine-trained object detection components to detect said one or more objects-of-interest generating alert information that identifies presence of said at least one detected object; and presenting the alert information to an output device of the virtual reality device while the user interacts with the virtual environment provided by the virtual reality device, wherein the method further comprises receiving alert-condition information that specifies at least one condition in which the alert information is to be provided to the user, wherein the alert-condition information specifies that alert information is to be provided to the user when the user performs a prescribed action and/or when the user exhibits a prescribed state, wherein the prescribed action and/or the prescribed state pertains to a manner in which the user is currently physically manipulating at least one controller in a course of interacting with an immersive virtual scenario, in relation to one or more physical objects in the physical environment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.925
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15693365', '14690296', '14871558', '15667509', '14835249']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6705289351000492
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4875632705232222
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6522323686423666
- Mean Citation Score: 201.075444
- Max Citation Score: 210.44215
- Similarity Product: 154.1749057960451

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test