Patent №
US 6,944,586
Granted
2005-09-13
Filed 1999
Owner
INTERACTIVE DRAMA, INC.
Lab
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AI components
4
nlp · vision · speech · planning
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
09436725
An audiovisual simulation system and method facilitates simulated long distance dialogue, face-to-face, natural language, human interaction between a user and a pre-recorded human character. It does so by utilizing communications features of the Internet to survey a remote user system and establish a suitable voice recognition and digital video link, then providing that user access to specific interactive software capable of supporting a continuous virtual dialogue in natural spoken language with a pre-recorded human character stored as digital video signals.
AI classification
Ownership
INTERACTIVE DRAMA, INC.
assignment · 103860497
Assignors
HARLESS, WILLIAM G., HARLESS, MICHAEL G., ZIER, MARCIA A.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.