US 12,118,687 B2
Virtual location selection for virtual content
Silas Warren, Plantation, FL (US); Omar Khan, Plantation, FL (US); Samuel A. Miller, Hollywood, FL (US); and Tushar Arora, Hollywood, FL (US)
Assigned to Magic Leap, Inc., Plantation, FL (US)
Filed by Magic Leap, Inc., Plantation, FL (US)
Filed on Nov. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/523,382.
Application 18/523,382 is a continuation of application No. 17/376,748, filed on Jul. 15, 2021, granted, now 11,861,796.
Application 17/376,748 is a continuation of application No. 16/909,489, filed on Jun. 23, 2020, granted, now 11,094,133, issued on Aug. 17, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/865,756, filed on Jun. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0096037 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06T 19/20 (2011.01)
CPC G06T 19/006 (2013.01) [G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G06T 19/20 (2013.01); G06T 2200/24 (2013.01); G06T 2219/2004 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
providing, for display by an augmented reality system, a notification on the augmented reality system indicating that new content is available;
in response to receiving a confirmation input from a user, removing, by the augmented reality system, the notification from display on the augmented reality system;
providing, by the augmented reality system and to a mobile device of a user of the augmented reality system, information that describes a physical environment surrounding the user;
providing, by the augmented reality system, the new content for display on a display of the augmented reality system at a display location based on location information received from a mobile device of the user of the augmented reality system indicating an assigned location within the physical environment that the user has selected for new content to appear to the user to be displayed;
receiving, from the mobile device of the user of the augmented reality system, an updated assigned location for the new content to be displayed; and
determining, by the augmented reality system and based on the updated assigned location, an updated display location on the display of the augmented reality system at which to display the new content so that the new content appears to the user to be displayed as an updated overlay at the updated assigned location in the physical environment.