Systems and methods for determining a safety boundary for a mobile artificial reality user

• Main Authors: Grossinger, Nadav, Bond, Lars Anders, Kantor, Niv
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 14.01.2020
• Subjects: ADVERTISING; ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICESUSING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; EDUCATION; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; PHYSICS; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; SEALS

The disclosed method may include (1) sensing, via a depth-sensing subsystem, a plurality of locations in three-dimensional space corresponding to physical surfaces in a real-world environment, (2) determining a dominant plane within the real-world environment, (3) defining a three-dimensional grid that is aligned with the dominant plane, (4) identifying, based on the plurality of locations relative to the dominant plane, a set of grid coordinates within the three-dimensional grid that are indicative of the physical surfaces, and (5) determining, based on the set of grid coordinates, a safety boundary to be employed by a head-mounted display system to notify a user of the head-mounted display system of the user's proximity to the physical surfaces. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.