ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,474, issued on May 6, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Video pass-through computing system" was invented by Robert Warren Gruen (Seattle), Weige Chen (Redmond, Wash.), Michael George Boulton (Seattle) and Roberta Rene Moeur (North Bend, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video pass-through computing system includes a head-mounted display device including a display, a camera configured to image a physical scene according to an exposure timing, and an augmented reality control circuit configured to receive a virtual image pixel stream and composite the camera image pixel stream with the virtual ...