US 12,079,943 B2
Neutral avatars
Karen Stolzenberg, Venice, CA (US); Lorena Pazmino, Wilton Manors, FL (US); Savannah Niles, Fort Lauderdale, FL (US); Ian Mankowski, Marina Del Rey, CA (US); Paul Kim, Los Angeles, CA (US); and Christina Lee, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Assigned to MAGIC LEAP, INC., Plantation, FL (US)
Filed by Magic Leap, Inc., Plantation, FL (US)
Filed on Mar. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/194,120.
Application 18/194,120 is a continuation of application No. 17/827,442, filed on May 27, 2022, granted, now 11,645,823.
Application 17/827,442 is a continuation of application No. 17/157,132, filed on Jan. 25, 2021, granted, now 11,380,072.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/966,278, filed on Jan. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0298287 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06T 13/40 (2011.01); G06T 19/20 (2011.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); G06V 40/18 (2022.01)
CPC G06T 19/006 (2013.01) [G06F 3/012 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G06T 13/40 (2013.01); G06T 19/20 (2013.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01); G06V 40/11 (2022.01); G06V 40/193 (2022.01); G06T 2219/024 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
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1. A computing system comprising:
a hardware computer processor;
a non-transitory computer readable medium having software instructions stored thereon, the software instructions executable by the hardware computer processor to cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:
determine a neutral avatar associated with a user in an augmented reality environment,
wherein the neutral avatar includes no indications of gender, ethnicity, and identity of the user; and
wherein the neutral avatar is configured to represent input cues from the user with changes to visual elements of the neutral avatar that are non-literal indications of the corresponding input cue; and
provide real-time rendering updates to the neutral avatar that are viewable by each of a plurality of users in a shared augmented reality environment.