US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Jan. 13 for "Providing a pass-through view of a real-world environment for a virtual reality headset for a user interaction with real world objects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,072, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Providing a pass-through view of a real-world environment for a virtual reality headset for a user interaction with real world objects" was invented by Hiroshi Horii (Pleasanton, Calif.), Edgar Charles Evangelista (San Jose, Calif.), Ajinkya Waghulde (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Yujie Jiang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a virtual reality (VR) head mounted device (HMD) includes displaying, by a display of the HMD, a VR environment, obtaining, by a processor of the HMD, a video feed of an external envir...