US 11,712,628 B2
Method and device for attenuation of co-user interactions
Avi Bar-Zeev, Oakland, CA (US); Alexis Henri Palangie, Palo Alto, CA (US); Luis Rafael Deliz Centeno, Fremont, CA (US); and Rahul Nair, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Assigned to APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/271,551
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 17, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/051568
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 25, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/061087, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 26, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/733,805, filed on Sep. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0339143 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. A63F 13/75 (2014.01); A63F 13/79 (2014.01); A63F 13/87 (2014.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01)
CPC A63F 13/75 (2014.09) [A63F 13/79 (2014.09); A63F 13/87 (2014.09); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); A63F 2300/8082 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
at a device having one or more processors, non-transitory memory, and one or more displays:
displaying simulated reality (SR) content to a first user using the one or more displays, the SR content comprising an avatar associated with a second user;
obtaining a trust level of the second user for the first user;
determining whether behavior of the avatar associated with the second user breaches a first set of avatar social interaction criteria corresponding to the trust level; and
attenuating at least a portion of the SR content representing the behavior of the avatar associated with the second user to a first degree in accordance with a determination that the behavior of the avatar associated with the second user breaches the first set of avatar social interaction criteria, wherein the first degree is different from a second degree of attenuating at least the portion of the SR content representing the behavior that is displayed to the second user.