Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Patent
1995-12-14
1999-03-09
Kim, Matthew M.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
345358, 345473, 345330, G06F 300
Patent
active
058807314
ABSTRACT:
Avatars representing participants in a graphic chat session are periodically animated to produce a gesture that conveys an emotion, action, or personality trait. Each participant in the chat session is enabled to select one of a plurality of different avatars to represent the participant in a graphic chat session. Associated with each avatar is a bitmap file that includes a plurality of frames illustrating the avatar in different poses, actions, and emotional states. Selected frames are displayed in rapid sequence in accord with a script file to create an animation effecting each gesture. The same script file is used to define a gesture for all of the avatars used in the chat session. A selected gesture can be transmitted with a text message to convey the user's emotional state. A gesture associated with the avatar is automatically displayed from time to time when the avatar is not otherwise gesturing or moving. The user can determine participants in the chat session with whom the user will interact, e.g., by defining a proximity radius around the user's avatar or by selecting the specific participants from a list. Avatars of participants that are outside the proximity radius (or otherwise not selected) and messages received from them are not displayed on the user's monitor.
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Liles Christopher A.
Vellon Manuel
Anderson Ronald M.
dela Torre Crescelle N.
Kim Matthew M.
Microsoft Corporation
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