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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2008
Brendan K. Reville, Seattle, WA (US);
Thomas A. Langan, Seattle, WA (US);
Dan B. Kroymann, Bothell, WA (US);
Derek H. Smith, Snohomish, WA (US);
Stacey Law, Redmond, WA (US);
Bjorn Toft Madsen, Ashby de la Zouch, GB;
Rodney Alan Boyd, London, GB;
Brendan K. Reville, Seattle, WA (US);
Thomas A. Langan, Seattle, WA (US);
Dan B. Kroymann, Bothell, WA (US);
Derek H. Smith, Snohomish, WA (US);
Stacey Law, Redmond, WA (US);
Bjorn Toft Madsen, Ashby de la Zouch, GB;
Rodney Alan Boyd, London, GB;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is an application programming interface (API) that provides for an extensible avatar system. In one embodiment an API may allow video game applications to retrieve structures of data which represent an avatar. The game can then take those structures and incorporate the data into its own rendering system. In another embodiment an API may allow a video game application to render an avatar to a render target or texture wherein the video game system performs rendering and animation functions.