Patents Assigned to Brainpool, Inc.
  • Dynamically responsive virtual characters
    Patent number: 8682838
    Abstract: Methods for conducting a virtual simulation are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request to generate a virtual simulation between a user and a virtual character, generating the virtual simulation for the user that includes the virtual character, and determining a desired outcome from the user within the virtual simulation. The method also includes selecting a strategy, from among a plurality of strategies, for achieving the desired outcome from the user, selecting an enactment for the selected strategy, from among a plurality of enactments, for the virtual character to execute to achieve the desired outcome from the user in the virtual simulation, and controlling the virtual character to execute the selected enactment for the selected strategy to achieve the desired outcome from the user in the virtual simulation. Systems, graphical user interfaces, and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Brainpool, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Hairman
  • DYNAMICALLY RESPONSIVE VIRTUAL CHARACTERS
    Publication number: 20110320965
    Abstract: Methods for conducting a virtual simulation are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request to generate a virtual simulation between a user and a virtual character, generating the virtual simulation for the user that includes the virtual character, and determining a desired outcome from the user within the virtual simulation. The method also includes selecting a strategy, from among a plurality of strategies, for achieving the desired outcome from the user, selecting an enactment for the selected strategy, from among a plurality of enactments, for the virtual character to execute to achieve the desired outcome from the user in the virtual simulation, and controlling the virtual character to execute the selected enactment for the selected strategy to achieve the desired outcome from the user in the virtual simulation. Systems, graphical user interfaces, and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: BRAINPOOL, INC.
    Inventor: Robert HAIRMAN
  • Voice to text conversion with keyword parse and match to semantic and transactional concepts stored in a brain pool state machine using word distance to generate character model interaction in a plurality of dramatic modes
    Patent number: 7734562
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed that supervises the behavior of interactive characters using dynamic, fuzzy, social rules. These characters, called Protags, resemble human beings and are modeled after universal characters and story motifs. Protags respond to input from speech recognizers, text based natural language recognition systems and manipulation of objects in the virtual world in which these characters reside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Brainpool, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Hairman