Patent Document ID: 9381426
Application ID: 14216488

Base Claim:
1. A system for avatar display and interaction using a gesture-based paradigm, comprising: a downloadable or web-accessible software application executable on an electronic computing device; an electronic visual display, a set of physical manifestations, or a combination thereof that outputs audio and video of digital characters or avatars; a storage module for receiving and storing a basis set of poses in the form of an array of microposes on said downloadable or web-accessible software application, said array of microposes being unique to a specific avatar, said array of microposes being end positions of said avatar without transitions between each of said array of microposes; a pose indicator having a spatial or device position that corresponds to said each micropose; and an access module that accesses said stored array of microposes, such that a first indicating position of said pose indicator causes said access module to access a first resulting position of said avatar for presentation on said electronic visual or physical display, said first resulting position corresponding to a first micropose or a first blended pose synthesized from a weighted blend of two or more corresponding microposes preselected from said array of microposes, said access module further accessing said stored array of microposes, such that a second indicating position of said pose indicator causes said access module to access a second resulting position of said avatar for display on said electronic visual display, said second resulting position corresponding to a second micropose or a second blended pose synthesized from a weighted blend of two or more corresponding microposes preselected from said array of microposes, said first resulting position and said second resulting position having a transition action therebetween that does not directly correspond to said spatial position of said pose indicator, said transition action displayed on said electronic visual or physical display, said transition action occurring based on measures of virtual plausibility and physical possibility, such that when said avatar is in said first resulting position, said first micropose or said first blended pose is fully weighted, and when said avatar is in said second resulting position, said second micropose or said second blended pose is fully weighted, and when said avatar is performing said transition action, intermediate states are determined in such a way as to avoid visual implausibility and physical implausibility, whereby said system blends said first and second blended poses based on said first and second microposes, respectively, and minimizes network demand or traffic for digital puppeteering, and maximizes quality of said digital characters or avatars on said electronic visual display.

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Claim 7:
7. A system for avatar display and interaction as in claim 1 , further comprising: said pose indicator including a motion sensing input device that detects said first indicating position of said pose indicator and converts said first indicating position to said first resulting position of said avatar, said first resulting position corresponding to said first micropose or said first blended pose preselected from said array of microposes, and said motion sensing input device further detecting said second indicating position of said pose indicator and converts said second indicating position to said second resulting position of said avatar, said second resulting position corresponding to said second micropose or said second blended pose preselected from said array of microposes.