US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 17 for "Pass-through zoom mode for head-mounted displays" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,053, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Pass-through zoom mode for head-mounted displays" was invented by Pascal Pare (Bothell, Wash.), Christian Markus Maekelae (Monroe, Wash.), Christopher Douglas Edmonds (Carnation, Wash.) and Michael Bleyer (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing zoomed representations of scene content is configurable to: (i) capture one or more images using one or more image sensors; (ii) generate display output for presentation on one or more displays, wherein the display output comprises at least a first region and a second region, ...