Enhanced system for generation of facial models and animation
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12169889
Systems and methods are provided for enhanced animation generation based on generative modeling. An example method includes training models based on faces and information associated with persons, each face being defined based on location information associated with facial features, and identity information for each person. The modeling system being trained to reconstruct expressions, textures, and models of persons.
Interaction based skill measurement for players of a video game
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12168182
Skill measurement systems and methods include interaction pairs and an interaction uncertainty. The interaction pairs are pairwise matches corresponding to instances of interactions between players. The interaction uncertainty variable corresponds to the instance of interaction and is based in part on the uncertainties of a player, player team, and/or gameplay aspects. The interaction pairs and interaction uncertainty are used to more accurately determine a skill rating of a player based…
Videogame telemetry data and game asset tracker for session recordings
Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12161942
Disclosed are issue tracking systems, troubleshooting techniques, and user interfaces for troubleshooting, which are associated with a user of a software application triggering the recording of a session. During the session, the user may narrate suggestions or problems for the application while they interact with the application in real-time, and a recording engine of the application may record various types of session data, such as the user's interaction, narration, telemetry data, call…
Systems and methods for a network-based video game application
Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12161941
Embodiments of the systems and methods disclosed herein provide a game that includes at least two users that each have a preconfigured set of playable virtual entities. The users draw playable virtual entities from each of their respective sets of playable virtual entities, and can play the playable virtual entities in one or more battles to facilitate moving a virtual positional marker towards a goal or shooting a goal, wherein the battle procedures are based on a turn priority. Certain…
Player profile management system
Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12161939
A player profile management system collects player data from various systems and generates and manages player profiles. A snapshot pipeline of the player profile management system generates a snapshot player profile associated with a player. The player profile management system receives, after generating the snapshot player profile associated with the player, player data associated with the player. An update pipeline of the player profile management system generates, based on the…
Automated pipeline selection for synthesis of audio assets
Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12159618
An example method of automated selection of audio asset synthesizing pipelines includes: receiving an audio stream comprising human speech; determining one or more features of the audio stream; selecting, based on the one or more features of the audio stream, an audio asset synthesizing pipeline; training, using the audio stream, one or more audio asset synthesizing models implementing respective stages of the selected audio asset synthesizing pipeline; and responsive to determining that…
Adversarial reinforcement learning for procedural content generation and improved generalization
Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12157063
Methods, apparatus and systems are provided for training a first reinforcement-learning (RL) agent and a second RL agent coupled to a computer game environment using RL techniques. The first RL agent iteratively generates a sub-goal sequence in relation to an overall goal within the computer game environment, where the first RL agent generates a new sub-goal for the sub-goal sequence after a second RL agent, interacting with the computer game environment, successfully achieves a current…
Enhanced animation generation based on generative control
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12138543
Systems and methods are provided for enhanced animation generation based on generative control models. An example method includes accessing an autoencoder trained based on character control information generated using motion capture data, the character control information indicating, at least, trajectory information associated with the motion capture data, and the autoencoder being trained to reconstruct, via a latent feature space, the character control information. First character…
Style-controlled generation of visual assets for video games using machine learning
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12136168
This specification describes a computing system for generating visual assets for video games. The computing system comprises an image segmentation model, a first 3D generation model, and a second 3D generation model. At least one of the first 3D generation model and the second 3D generation model comprises a machine-learning model. The system is configured to obtain: (i) a plurality of images corresponding to the visual asset, each image showing a different view of an object to be…
Training action prediction machine-learning models for video games with healed data
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12128313
This specification provides a computer-implemented method, the method comprising obtaining a machine-learning model. The machine-learning model is being trained with expert data comprising a plurality of training examples. Each training example comprises: (i) game state data representing a state of a video game environment, and (ii) scored action data representing an action and a score for that action if performed by a video game entity of the video game environment subsequent to the…
Detecting collusion in online games
Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number:
12115458
A collusion detection system may detect collusion between entities participating in online gaming. The collusion detection system may identify a plurality of entities associated with and opponents within an instance of an online game, determine social data associated with the plurality of entities, determine in-game behavior data associated with the plurality of entities, and determine, for one or more pairings of the plurality of entities, respective pairwise feature sets based at least…
Text to performance pipeline system
Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number:
12115452
Methods, apparatus and systems are provided for generating an interactive non-player character (NPC) scene for a computer game environment of a video game. Changes are detected in relation to a script associated with the interactive NPC scene. For each NPC, a set of NPC data associated with the interactions said each NPC has within the script is generated corresponding to the changes. The generated set of NPC data is processed with an NPC rig associated with said each NPC to generate an…
Persona driven dynamic content framework
Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number:
12109496
A persona system determines a player persona for a player of a gaming system based on gameplay information for the user and, for example, performs dynamic content generation or additional product recommendations based on the player persona. The persona system may receive a request for content based on a persona of a player and receive gameplay data associated with gameplay of the player in a plurality of games. The persona system may then generate a player persona of the player based on…
Competitive event based reward distribution system
Granted: October 1, 2024
Patent Number:
12102925
The present disclosure provides a video game based reward distribution system. The reward system can provide users with a plurality of progression tracks that allow the users to choose how to progress through the reward map when advancing or leveling up a virtual character or user account within the video game.
Feedback oriented gameplay sessions in video games
Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12097437
Systems and methods are described herein for monitoring a gameplay session for violations of a policy and creating a remediation gameplay session through which remediation can be provided to players or player accounts that violate gameplay policies. The systems and methods can create a remediation gameplay session based in part on the game state data of the gameplay session during which the violation occurs.
Goal driven animation
Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12097431
The specification relates to the generation of in-game animation data and the evaluation of in-game animations. According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, there is described a computer implemented method comprising: inputting, into one or more neural network models, input data comprising one or more current pose markers indicative of a current pose of an in-game object, one or more target markers indicative of a target pose of an in-game object and an object trajectory of the…
Distributed realization of digital content
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12093735
Techniques are disclosed that can obtain a description of intended digital content data in a producer computer, create a task graph of the intended digital content data, send the task graph to a consumer computer over a bus, execute the task graph locally in the consumer computer to realize an approximation of the intended digital content data, and render the approximation of the intended digital content data on a local display or other appropriate output device.
Contextually aware communications system in video games
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12090402
In response to receiving user input command for sending a contextually aware communication, a computer system is configured to use game state data to determine a target location that a player is focusing on in a virtual environment in a video game, identify a unit that the player likely wants to communicate about based on at least priorities of unit types and proximities of units to the target location, and select a communication action for performance. Different communication actions…
Anti-peek system for video games
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12090400
Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for preventing rendering of a character in a video game. The method includes receiving an action regarding a first character rendered in a first-person point of view (POV), the action causing the POV of the first character to change from the first-person POV to a third-person POV. The method includes detecting the POV of the first character is to be changed. The method includes determining…
Automated test multiplexing system
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12076638
An imitation learning system may learn how to play a video game based on user interactions by a tester or other user of the video game. The imitation learning system may develop an imitation learning model based, at least in part, on the tester's interaction with the video game and the corresponding state of the video game to determine or predict actions that may be performed when interacting with the video game. The imitation learning system may use the imitation learning model to…
