US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 30 for "Utilizing environmental visibility condition for controlling display system on HMD devices" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,024, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Utilizing environmental visibility condition for controlling display system on HMD devices" was invented by Keenan Russell May (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example provides a method enacted on a head mounted display (HMD) device including a display system. The method comprises operating the display system in one of a pass-through mode or a see-through mode. The method further comprises detecting a change in an environmental visibility condition using image data from an image sensor of the HMD device, and in response to ...