US 11,839,814 B2
Systems and methods for controlling camera perspectives, movements, and displays of video game gameplay
Michael Sanders, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Assigned to Activision Publishing, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Activision Publishing, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/812,123.
Application 17/812,123 is a continuation of application No. 17/127,728, filed on Dec. 18, 2020, granted, now 11,420,122.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/952,637, filed on Dec. 23, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0001297 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A63F 13/525 (2014.01); A63F 13/5258 (2014.01); A63F 13/86 (2014.01)
CPC A63F 13/525 (2014.09) [A63F 13/5258 (2014.09); A63F 13/86 (2014.09)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method of controlling at least one of a navigation, positioning or orientation of a virtual camera configured to capture a plurality of storylines in a multiplayer video game for transmission to at least one computing device, said method comprising:
transmitting, from the at least one server to the at least one computing device, a current one of the plurality of storylines;
analyzing, in at least one server, wherein the at least one server is remote from the at least one computing device, data to identify a new one of the plurality of storylines;
selecting the new one of the identified plurality of storylines based, at least in part, on at least one of a travel distance from a current position of the virtual camera to a new position, a degree to which a new one of the plurality of storylines has a rank that is greater than a rank of the current one of the plurality of storylines, or a boundary beyond which the virtual camera is not permitted to be moved;
programmatically moving, in the at least one server, the virtual camera to capture the selected new one of the plurality of storylines; and
transmitting, from the at least one server to the at least one computing device, the selected new one of the plurality of storylines.