Digital character interacting with customer in physical realm
AssigneeUniversal City Studios LLC
InventorsSarah Scialli, Demian Gordon
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Abstract
Systems and methods for controlling performance of a digital character depicted at a display device are disclosed. According to at least one embodiment, a method for controlling performance of a digital character depicted at a display device includes: determining a presence of a person located in a physical environment; and in response to determining the presence of the person, facilitating control of the performance of the digital character depicted at the display device by a human operator, by an artificial intelligence (AI) game-engine, or by a combination thereof.
Claims20
A method for enabling a digital character depicted at a display device to interact with a first person located in a physical environment, the method comprising:
- providing for an interaction between the digital character and the first person by controlling a performance of the digital character depicted at the display device by a second person, by an artificial intelligence (AI) game-engine, or by a combination thereof;
- and
- during the interaction between the digital character and the first person, causing a change in the physical environment in which the first person is located in response to an action by the digital character depicted at the display device, wherein the change in the physical environment is associated with a physical object different from the display device.
An apparatus for enabling a digital character depicted at a display device to interact with a first person located in a physical environment, the apparatus comprising:
- a network communication unit configured to transmit and receive data;
- and
- one or more controllers configured to:
- provide for an interaction between the digital character and the first person by controlling a performance of the digital character depicted at the display device by a second person, by an artificial intelligence (AI) game-engine, or by a combination thereof;
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- during the interaction between the digital character and the first person, cause a change in the physical environment in which the first person is located in response to an action by the digital character depicted at the display device, wherein the change in the physical environment is associated with a physical object different from the display device.
A machine-readable non-transitory medium having stored thereon machine-executable instructions for enabling a digital character depicted at a display device to interact with a first person located in a physical environment, the instructions comprising:
- providing for an interaction between the digital character and the first person by controlling a performance of the digital character depicted at the display device by a second person, by an artificial intelligence (AI) game-engine, or by a combination thereof;
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- during the interaction between the digital character and the first person, causing a change in the physical environment in which the first person is located in response to an action by the digital character depicted at the display device, wherein the change in the physical environment is associated with a physical object different from the display device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.