US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on June 2 for "Sensory cue augmentation for virtual windows" (California, Virginia, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,271, issued on June 2, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Sensory cue augmentation for virtual windows" was invented by Michael Stengel (San Jose, Calif.), Peter Schuyler Shirley (Salt Lake City), Joohwan Kim (Fremont, Calif.) and David Patrick Luebke (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Visual cue augmentation for virtual windows adds visual cues into a rendered virtual window that is displayed in a real environment. Visual cue contingent rendering reinforces connections between virtual and real objects and spaces, harmonizing a virtual window scene displayed within a real environment with the real e...