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 17):
A method for presenting information to a user about a physical environment, the physical environment corresponding to a physical setting in which the user uses a virtual reality device to interact with a virtual environment, the method comprising:\n receiving object-selection information in response to interaction by the user with a user interface presentation via an input device, the object-selection information specifying one or more objects-of-interest, said receiving of object-selection information comprising receiving a selection by the user of each object-of-interest from a set of selectable objects-of-interest presented by the user interface presentation; receiving alert-mode information in response to interaction by the user with the user interface presentation via the input device, the alert-mode information specifying a manner in which the user is to be notified of presence of said one or more objects-of-interest in the physical environment, said receiving of alert-mode information comprising receiving a selection by the user of a presentation technique for each individual object-of-interest, selected from a set of selectable presentation techniques presented by the user interface presentation; receiving environment input information that represents the physical environment from at least one environment-sensing device, said at least one environment-sensing device being provided by the virtual reality device; 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; generating alert information for each individual detected object, in a manner specified by the alert-mode information for the individual detected object, that identifies presence of the individual detected object; and presenting the alert information to an output device while the user interacts with the virtual environment provided by the virtual reality device, the alert information apprising the user of a subset of objects in the physical environment at the current time, but not all of the objects in the physical environment that can be selected.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.925
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15693365', '14690296', '14871558', '15667509', '14835249']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6436741459618168
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4856203822305155
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6278687695886866
- Mean Citation Score: 201.075444
- Max Citation Score: 210.44215
- Similarity Product: 153.5816439361185

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test