US 11,733,769 B2
Presenting avatars in three-dimensional environments
Gary Ian Butcher, San Jose, CA (US); Dorian D. Dargan, Cupertino, CA (US); Nicolas Scapel, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Rupert Burton, Los Gatos, CA (US); Nicholas W. Henderson, San Carlos, CA (US); Jason Rickwald, Santa Cruz, CA (US); Giancarlo Yerkes, Menlo Park, CA (US); and Kristi E. S. Bauerly, Los Altos, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/337,164.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/036,411, filed on Jun. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0382544 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 13/40 (2011.01); G06T 13/80 (2011.01)
CPC G06F 3/011 (2013.01) [G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 13/40 (2013.01); G06T 13/80 (2013.01); G06T 2200/24 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30196 (2013.01)] 75 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer system that is configured to communicate with a display generation component, the computer system comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
receiving pose data representing a pose of at least a first portion of a user; and
causing, via the display generation component, presentation of an avatar, wherein the avatar includes a respective avatar feature corresponding to the first portion of the user and presented having a variable display characteristic that is indicative of a certainty of the pose of the first portion of the user, wherein presenting the avatar includes:
in accordance with a determination that the pose of the first portion of the user is associated with a first certainty value, presenting the avatar with the respective avatar feature having a first value of the variable display characteristic, wherein presenting the avatar with the respective avatar feature having the first value of the variable display characteristic includes moving the respective avatar feature with the first value of the variable display characteristic as the pose of the first portion of the user changes over time; and
in accordance with a determination that the pose of the first portion of the user is associated with a second certainty value different from the first certainty value, presenting the avatar with the respective avatar feature having a second value of the variable display characteristic different from the first value of the variable display characteristic, wherein presenting the avatar with the respective avatar feature having the second value of the variable display characteristic includes moving the respective avatar feature with the second value of the variable display characteristic as the pose of the first portion of the user changes over time.