User controlled real object disappearance in a mixed reality display

摘要

The technology causes disappearance of a real object in a field of view of a see-through, mixed reality display device system based on user disappearance criteria. Image data is tracked to the real object in the field of view of the see-through display for implementing an alteration technique on the real object causing its disappearance from the display. A real object may satisfy user disappearance criteria by being associated with subject matter that the user does not wish to see or by not satisfying relevance criteria for a current subject matter of interest to the user. In some embodiments, based on a 3D model of a location of the display device system, an alteration technique may be selected for a real object based on a visibility level associated with the position within the location. Image data for alteration may be prefetched based on a location of the display device system.

主权项

1. One or more processor-readable storage devices having instructions encoded thereon for causing one or more processors to execute a method for causing a real object to be obscured in a see-through display of a see-through, mixed reality display device system, the method comprising:
receiving metadata identifying one or more real objects in a field of view of the see-through display; determining whether any of the one or more real objects satisfies user disappearance criteria, the user disappearance criteria determinative of whether the one or more objects should be obscured and based on a current subject matter of interest, wherein the determining comprises:
identifying any real object type associated with the current subject matter of interest based on notification of the current subject matter of interest to a user, while the user is viewing the one or more real objects through the see-through display; and responsive to determining a first real object of the one or more real objects satisfies the user disappearance criteria, tracking image data to the first real object in the see-through display for causing the first real object to be obscured in the field of view of the see-through display by selectively controlling natural light transmissivity of each pixel of a dense grid of pixels of an opacity filter of the see-through display.