US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Sept. 1 for "Method and apparatus for generating walk animation of virtual role, device and storage medium" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,339, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for generating walk animation of virtual role, device and storage medium" was invented by Shikai Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for generating a walk animation of a virtual role includes: predicting touchdown points of a leg of the virtual role in the walk process according to a movement velocity and a movement direction of the virtual role; computing a position of a foot of the leg in a swing phase according to two adjacent touchdown points of the leg; performing, based on the posit...