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US 11,896,906 B2Granted
System and method for creating an avatar
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsJason Nims, Roberto Tagliabue, Danielle M. Quatrochi
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Abstract
An avatar or avatar environment to visualize data may be provided within a social networking system or service, for example as part of the Internet, and/or within a desktop widget, panel, gadget, or the like. The avatar may further evolve or alter its appearance, animation, or other visual or audio characteristics in response to the data or other input such as athletic activity performed by a corresponding user. In particular, the avatar of an embodiment may respond to and provide visualization of athletic or sport performance data.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- memory storing computer readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to:
- receive user specifications for creating an avatar;
- generate a user interface displaying the avatar and other avatars in a distance traversed competition, where each avatar represents a user competing in the distance traversed competition, the user interface including a first portion displaying all avatars in the distance traversed competition and representing an entirety of a distance associated with the distance traversed competition, and a second portion displaying a portion of the distance associated with the distance traversed competition, the portion of the distance being less than the entirety of the distance associated with the distance traversed competition and the portion of the distance being dynamically determined based on a number of avatars matching a predetermined number of avatars for display in the second portion, the second portion displaying fewer than all of the avatars in the distance traversed competition;
- select a type of activity for the avatar to perform;
- animate the avatar to perform the selected type of activity;
- animate a background of the user interface;
- and
- display the animated avatar in the second portion against the animated background.
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One or more tangible, non-transitory computer readable media storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause an apparatus to:
- receive user specifications for creating an avatar;
- generate a user interface displaying the avatar and other avatars in a distance traversed competition, where each avatar represents a user competing in the distance traversed competition, the user interface including a first portion displaying all avatars in the distance traversed competition and representing an entirety of a distance associated with the distance traversed competition, and a second portion displaying a portion of the distance associated with the distance traversed competition, the portion of the distance being less than the entirety of the distance associated with the distance traversed competition and the portion of the distance being dynamically determined based on a number of avatars matching a predetermined number of avatars for display in the second portion, the second portion displaying fewer than all of the avatars in the distance traversed competition;
- select a type of activity for the avatar to perform;
- animate the avatar to perform the selected type of activity;
- animate a background of the user interface;
- and
- display the avatar in the second portion against the animated background.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device having at least one processor and memory, user specifications for creating an avatar;
- generating, by the at least one processor, the avatar;
- generating, by the at least one processor, a user interface displaying the generated avatar and other avatars in a distance traversed competition, where each avatar represents a user competing in the distance traversed competition, the user interface including a first portion displaying all avatars in the distance traversed competition and representing an entirety of a distance associated with the distance traversed competition, and a second portion displaying a portion of the distance associated with the distance traversed competition, the portion of the distance being less than the entirety of the distance associated with the distance traversed competition and the portion of the distance being dynamically determined based on a number of avatars matching a predetermined number of avatars for display in the second portion, the second portion displaying fewer than all of the avatars in the distance traversed competition;
- selecting, by the at least one processor, a type of activity for the avatar to perform;
- animating, by the at least one processor, the avatar to perform the selected type of activity;
- animating, by the at least one processor, a background of the user interface;
- and
- displaying, by the at least one processor, the avatar in the second portion against the animated background.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.