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US 11,380,072 B2Granted
Neutral avatars
AssigneeMagic Leap, Inc.
InventorsKaren Stolzenberg, Lorena Pazmino, Savannah Niles, Ian Mankowski, Paul Kim, Christina Lee
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Abstract
Neutral avatars are neutral with reference physical characteristics of the corresponding user, such as weight, ethnicity, gender, or even identity. Thus, neutral avatars may be desirable to use in various copresence environments where the user desires to maintain privacy with reference to the above-noted characteristics. Neutral avatars may be configured to convey, in real-time, actions and behaviors of the corresponding user without using literal forms of the user's actions and behaviors.
Claims18
A computing system comprising:
- a hardware computer processor;
- and
- a non-transitory computer readable medium having software instructions stored thereon, the software instructions executable by the hardware computer processor to cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:
- providing co-presence environment data usable by a plurality of users to interact in an augmented reality environment;
- for each of a plurality of users:
- determine one or more visual distinctions of a neutral avatar for the user, wherein the visual distinctions are different from visual distinctions of neutral avatars of others of the plurality of users;
- and
- periodically:
- detect eye movements of the user;
- map the detected eye movements to a visual change of a geometric feature positioned outside of an eye area of the neutral avatar;
- and
- update the co-presence environment data to include the determined visual change of the neutral avatar.
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A computing system comprising:
- a hardware computer processor;
- and
- a non-transitory computer readable medium having software instructions stored thereon, the software instructions executable by the hardware computer processor to cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:
- determine a neutral avatar associated with a user in an augmented reality environment,
- wherein the neutral avatar includes no indications of gender, ethnicity, and identity of the user;
- and
- wherein the neutral avatar is configured to represent detected eye movements of the user with changes to visual elements of the neutral avatar outside of an eye area of the neutral avatar;
- and
- provide real-time rendering updates to the neutral avatar that are viewable by each of a plurality of users in a shared augmented reality environment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.