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Use of beacons for assistance to users in interacting with their environments

A beacon and user technology, applied in the direction of user/computer interaction input/output, user interface execution, educational tools, etc., to achieve the effect of eliminating location ambiguity

Active Publication Date: 2017-08-29
MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC
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However, there is still considerable room for improvement in these conventional institutions

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[0057] The disclosure is organized as follows. Section A provides an overview of systems for assisting users in interacting with real and / or virtual spaces. Section B describes different types of headsets and handheld user computing devices that may be used in the system of Section A. Section C describes an exemplary user interface experience that may be provided by the system of Section A. Part D describes functions for generating and using 3D sound and other (non-3D) types of sound. Section E describes beacon-based guidance functionality for assisting a user in navigating through an environment populated with beacons, which in one exemplary implementation have non-overlapping ranges. And Section F describes exemplary computing functions that may be used to implement any aspect of the features described in the previous sections.

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Beacon-based guidance functionality is described herein that assists the user in navigating over a desired route within an environment, or otherwise interacting with the environment. The environment, in turn, is populated with a plurality of beacons having, in one implementation, respective non-overlapping ranges. The desired route traverses ranges associated with a route-specific set of beacons, from among the plurality of beacons. In one manner of operation, the beacon-based guidance functionality determines whether a user is within a range of one of the route-specific beacons. Based on that knowledge, the beacon-based guidance module can generate guidance information which directs the user towards a next waypoint in the route.

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Background technique [0001] A user can rely on various conventional mechanisms to generate and execute travel plans and / or explore his or her environment in a more spontaneous and unconstrained manner. For example, a user may use a routing application to generate a route for traveling between two locations. That same app can then guide the user as they navigate the route through a series of prompts. A prompt may correspond to an audible and / or displayed message, for example, a message verbally instructing the user to make a turn within a prescribed distance. However, there is still considerable room for improvement in these conventional mechanisms. Contents of the invention [0002] Various tools for assisting users in interacting with physical and / or virtual spaces are described herein. Such assistance may, for example, facilitate user navigation within physical and / or virtual spaces. As used herein, navigation refers to the purposeful movement of a user through space a...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F3/01G06F3/0346G06F3/0481G06F3/0482G06F3/0488G06F3/16H04S7/00G01C21/20G01C21/36G06F1/16H04W4/02H04W4/021
CPCG01C21/206G01C21/3664G06F1/163G06F3/012G06F3/016G06F3/0346G06F3/04815G06F3/0482G06F3/04883G06F3/04886G06F3/167H04S7/304G06F2203/014H04S2420/01H04S2400/11H04R1/1041H04R5/033G01C21/3635G01C21/3629G06Q30/0205G09B21/006H04W4/021G08G1/005G08G1/0962H04R27/00G06F9/452G06F3/011H04W4/02G01S5/0295G06F16/24575G06F16/9537G06F3/0488G08G1/00G08G1/0968G06F9/451
Inventor B·N·科蒂尔J·S·丘格M·R·法默M·J·B·帕克R·J·威尔科克斯
Owner MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC