US 12,420,182 B2
Drift control assistance in virtual environment
Xiongfei Huang, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to Tencent America LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED, Guangdong (CN)
Filed on Feb. 16, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/444,415.
Application 18/444,415 is a continuation of application No. 17/320,051, filed on May 13, 2021, granted, now 11,938,400.
Application 17/320,051 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2020/072635, filed on Jan. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 201910130187.X (CN), filed on Feb. 21, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0189711 A1, Jun. 13, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A63F 13/42 (2014.01); A63F 13/44 (2014.01); G06F 18/2431 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)
CPC A63F 13/44 (2014.09) [A63F 13/42 (2014.09); G06F 18/2431 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
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1. An object control method, comprising:
detecting a user operation on an interaction control interface to trigger a target object to perform a drift action in a virtual environment of an application;
controlling, by processing circuitry, the target object to perform the drift action in a current path in the virtual environment in response to the user operation on the interaction control interface;
determining an angle of the target object in a process of performing the drift action, the angle of the target object being an angle between a movement direction of the target object and a sliding direction of the target object; and
adjusting, by the processing circuitry, a key responsiveness state of at least one key of the interaction control interface to an invalid state in response to the angle of the target object in the process of performing the drift action reaching an angle threshold, such that the target object continues to perform the drift action in the virtual environment,
wherein operations on the at least one key of the interaction control interface in the invalid state do not affect movement of the target object in the virtual environment.