Away from keyboard (AFK) helper for game players

    公开(公告)号:US12128302B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-29

    申请号:US17816969

    申请日:2022-08-02

    CPC classification number: A63F13/49

    Abstract: A player who is interrupted during play of a computer simulation such as a computer game and must attend to other matters (colloquially referred to herein as being “away from keyboard” or “AFK”) is assisted in three phases. A first type of assistance is rendered when entering AFK, as in, at the start of the interruption. A second type of assistance is rendered during AFK, while the player is away. A third type of assistance is rendered when the player returns from AFK to the computer simulation.

    Noise, active noise cancelation, and filtering to improve privacy for HMD motion sensors

    公开(公告)号:US12062356B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-13

    申请号:US17816922

    申请日:2022-08-02

    CPC classification number: G10K11/17881 G10K11/17825

    Abstract: To protect a user's privacy by reducing a malicious developer's ability to eavesdrop on unwitting HMD users by converting signals from a motion sensor in the HMD to speech or speaker recognition, a microphone can record ambient sound and voice which is subtracted from the motion sensor data before the sensor data is made available to the game developer. Additionally, ANC (active noise cancellation) techniques can be adapted to cancel noise from a motion sensor's data. In another technique, a band pass filter subtracts frequency in the sensor signals within the voice range. Still a third technique blends statistical noise into the motion sensor signal before passing to game developers to obfuscate the user's speech.

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