US Patent Issued to Activision Publishing on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for procedurally animating a virtual camera associated with player-controlled avatars in video games" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,347, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Activision Publishing Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for procedurally animating a virtual camera associated with player-controlled avatars in video games" was invented by Matthew John Stine (Los Angeles) and Cody Palmatier Pierson (Granada Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for imparting dynamic, non-linear and realistic movement and look and feel to a player's/virtual character's first-person limbs and hand-held object model, and procedurally animating a first-person virtual camera such that it simulates the movement of a camera hand...