METHOD AND APPARTUS FOR DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANIMATED CHARACTERS UPON A COMPUTER MONITOR'S SCREEN IN WHICH A COMPOSITE VIDEO DISPLAY IS MERGED INTO A STATIC BACKGROUND SUCH THAT THE BOARDER BETWEEN THE STATIC BACKGROUND AND THE COMPOSITE VIDEO IS

Patent №

US 5,657,462

Granted

1997-08-12

Filed 1996

Owner

HOBSONS DIGITAL MEDIA, INC.

+1 more

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08594404

A method and apparatus is provided for displaying upon a monitor having a graphical user interface a movie-type window having a Digital Help Agent that has the appearance of moving between one window and a second window. The Digital Help Agent not only can move between apparent windows, but can point items out upon the display such as buttons or menu choices by moving to and touching those buttons or menu choices. The Digital Help Agent can be provided with a three-dimensional effect to enhance the visual reality to more focus the computer user's attention upon the Digital Help Agent. The Digital Help Agent is also provided with a voice via the audio output on the computer's speaker, so that the Digital Help Agent can audibly inform the computer's user as to the effect of choosing a particular menu item or button while the Digital Help Agent is actually touching that button or menu item.

VisionH04M 1/27475G06F 3/04895G06F 9/453G06N 5/04H04M 1/2477H04M 2250/56

AI classification

Vision1.00
Speech0.22
Natural language0.00
AI hardware0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

HOBSONS DIGITAL MEDIA, INC.

assignment · 94900358

HOBSONS, INC.

assignment · 116580412

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