Activision Publishing, Inc.

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Matthew John Stine

Cody Palmatier Pierson

Joel Callicrate

Systems and methods are described for imparting dynamic, non-linear and realistic movement and look and feel to a player's/virtual character's first-person limbs and hand-held object model, and procedurally animating a first-person virtual camera such that it simulates the movement of a camera handheld by the player/virtual character. To impart chaotic or random motion to the first-person limbs and hand-held object model a first module defines and implements first and second two dimensional mass-spring-damper systems, each of which is linked to the player's/virtual vector's view vector. Procedural animation or rotational shake is implemented by a second module by applying a coherent noise function to each of the six axes of the first-person virtual camera.

Systems and methods for procedurally animating a virtual camera associated with player-controlled avatars in video games

Systems and methods for programming movements of player-controlled avatars in video games

Systems and methods for pivoting player-controlled avatars in video games

Systems and methods for imparting dynamic and realistic movement to player-controlled avatars in video games

A method and corresponding apparatus provide a tiled map and display object layer over a network. The method includes receiving at an application server a request for a map and a request for display objects from at least one data stream available over the network, the display objects to be displayed on the map on a user computerized device, sending a request for the requested map from the application server over the network to a mapping server, receiving at the application server the requested map as a tiled map layer, sending over the network a request to the one or more data streams for the requested display objects, receiving at the application server locations of the requested display objects, combining the tiled map layer and the requested display objects into a tiled map and display object layer, and sending the tiled map and display object layer to the user computerized device.

Method and apparatus for providing a tiled map and display object layer over a network

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