ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,268, issued on May 13, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Predictive display of thrown projectile" was invented by Bojun Liu (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this disclosure describe a method and an apparatus for controlling a virtual object to interact with a projectile. The method includes: determining a shooting direction of a camera of the virtual scene as a throwing direction of a projectile controlled by the virtual object; determining a motion trajectory of the projectile according to an initial position, the throwing direction, an initial throwing speed of ...