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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2019
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Kenneth J. Mitchell, Glendale, CA (US);
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments provide for animation streaming for media interaction by receiving, at a generator, inputs from a target device presenting of a virtual environment; updating, based on the user inputs, a model of the virtual environment; determining network conditions between the generator and target device; generating a packet that includes a forecasted animation set for a virtual object in the updated model that comprises rig updates for the virtual object for at least two different states, and a number of states included in the packet is based on the network conditions; and streaming the packet to the target device, where the target device: receives a second input to interact with the virtual environment that changes the virtual environment to a given state; selects and applies a rig update associated with the given state a local model of the virtual object; and outputs the updated local model on the target device.