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US 2025/0128178 A1Published application
Methods and systems for facilitating intra-game communications in a video game environment
AssigneeAdeia Guides Inc.
InventorCurtis Sullivan
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Abstract
Methods and systems for facilitating intra-game communication in video game environments featuring first-person or third-person perspectives by generating an on-screen graphic that includes the communication and a pointer towards a location of another user within the video game environment.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- identify, using control circuitry, a first location within a video game environment of a first object;
- identify, using the control circuitry, a second location within the video game environment of a first avatar, wherein the first avatar corresponds to a user;
- receiving, using the control circuitry, gaze information related to the user;
- determining, using the control circuitry, a line of sight of the user based, at least in part, on the received gaze information;
- detecting, using the control circuitry, that the line of sight of the user is directed to the first location and that a second object is located between the first location and the second location;
- and
- generating for display, using the control circuitry, a graphic comprising an indication of the line of sight of the user, wherein the graphic is generated based, at least in part, on detecting that the line of sight of the user is directed to the first location and that the second object is located between the first location and the second location.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- control circuitry;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the control circuitry, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following:
- identify a first location within a video game environment of a first object;
- identify a second location within the video game environment of a first avatar, wherein the first avatar corresponds to a user;
- receive gaze information related to the user;
- determine a line of sight of the user based, at least in part, on the received gaze information;
- detect that the line of sight of the user is directed to the first location and that a second object is located between the first location and the second location;
- and
- generate for display, a graphic comprising an indication of the line of sight of the user, wherein the graphic is generated based, at least in part, on detecting that the line of sight of the user is directed to the first location and that the second object is located between the first location and the second location.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.