Dockable Billboards For Labeling Objects In A Display Having A Three-Dimensional Perspective Of A Virtual or Real Environment

摘要

A system and method that allows a user to view objects in a three-dimensional environment, where one or more of the objects have a data display (e.g., a data billboard, etc.) that shows data about the object. To enhance user experience and to provide relevant contextual data as the user navigates through the three-dimensional environment, the system calculates a location for the user and a location for each object and determines if a relationship between the user frame of reference and each object location satisfies a first criterion. If the first criterion is satisfied, the system is configured to move the data display to the bottom of a viewing area of the three-dimensional environment (e.g. docking the data display to the bottom of the viewing area, etc.). The system may also arrange the data displays in the same order as the objects are perceived by the user in the three-dimensional environment.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
generating a first view of a three-dimensional environment at a first point in time, wherein the first view of the three-dimensional environment is a view of the three-dimensional environment as viewed from a first location and a first perspective in the three-dimensional environment, wherein the first view comprises a data display area visually aligned with a three-dimensional object; receiving user input that identifies a second location and a second perspective in the three-dimensional environment; in response to receiving the user input, performing:
determining whether the three-dimensional object, as viewed from the second location and the second perspective, satisfies a first criterion;in response to determining that the three-dimensional object, as viewed from the second location and the second perspective, satisfies the first criterion, generating a second different view of the three-dimensional environment at a second point in time subsequent to the first point in time, wherein the second view is a view of the three-dimensional environment as viewed from the second location and the second perspective, wherein the data display area in the second view is moved from a position visually aligned with the three-dimensional object to a different location in a designated area; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.