ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,015, issued on June 3, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Dynamic locomotion adaptation in runtime generated environments" was invented by Wolfram Sebastian Starke (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Harold Henry Chaput (Castro Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Use of pose prediction models enables runtime animation to be generated for an electronic game. The pose prediction model can predict a character pose of a character based on joint data for a pose of the character in a previous frame. Further, by using environment data, it is possible to modify the prediction of the character pose based on a pa...