Inserting imagery from a real environment into a virtual environment

• Main Authors: Holman, Tomlinson, Nepveu, Bertrand, Chenier, Marc-Andre, Chapdelaine-Couture, Vincent, Cote, Yan, Lepage, Marc-Olivier, Carter, Sandy J, Fortin-Deschênes, Simon, Ghannoum, Anthony, Millette, Yves
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 17.10.2023
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

The present disclosure relates to techniques for inserting imagery from a real environment into a virtual environment. While presenting (e.g., displaying) the virtual environment at an electronic device, a proximity of the electronic device to a physical object located in a real environment is detected. In response to detecting that the proximity of the electronic device to the physical object is less than a first threshold distance, imagery of the physical object is isolated from other imagery of the real environment. The isolated imagery of the physical object is inserted into the virtual environment at a location corresponding to the location of the physical object in the real environment. The imagery of the physical object has a first visibility value associated with the proximity of the electronic device to the physical object.