[윤영진의 글로벌기업 IP 살펴보기]#1. 메타버스 NO.1 플랫폼 ‘로블록스’

a memory; and

a processing system, coupled to the memory, the processing system causing:

a user interface presenter(사용자 인터페이스 표시자) to provide a user interface for creating a game, the user interface facilitating user selection of parts for the game;

an editing engine(편집 엔진) to place a set of parts selected by a user in a three-dimensional (3D) world;

a joint engine(조인트 엔진) to automatically detect, without user interaction, adjacent parts within the set based on proximity of surfaces of the parts in the 3D world while parts are being moved during editing operations of the user and, upon detecting the adjacent parts, to automatically determine, without user interaction, joint types for the adjacent parts based on surface types of the adjacent parts and to automatically create, without user interaction, one or more rigid joints of the determined joint types between the adjacent parts, wherein at least some of the adjacent parts are primitive geometric shapes selected by the user for joining with other parts in the set, the primitive geometric shapes including at least one of a block, a wedge, a cylinder and a sphere, and to form one or more models for the game from the set of parts that comprises parts automatically joined, without user interaction, using the one or more rigid joints; and

a physics engine(물리 엔진) to physically simulate motion of joined parts having one or more rigid joints in the game and motion of the one or more models in the game using one or more properties, wherein the one or more properties specify one or more of an event to occur when joined parts having one or more rigid joints collide during simulation and whether joined parts having one or more rigid joints are intended to collide during simulation, to detect a first collision between the joined parts having one or more rigid joints in the 3D world during physical simulation of the motion of the joined parts and the one or more models, to simulate, based on the one or more properties, a behavior of the joined parts having one or more rigid joints that results from the first collision, to allow a user to modify one or more properties of joined parts having one or more rigid joints selected by the user in the 3D world, and to simulate, based on the modified properties, a modified behavior of the joined parts having one or more rigid joints that results from a second collision.

미국 특허 제7,874,921호의 독립항인 청구항 14

a memory; and

a processing system, coupled to the memory, the processing system causing:

a user interface presenter(사용자 인터페이스 표시자) to provide a user interface for creating a game, the user interface facilitating user selection of parts for the game;

an editing engine(편집 엔진) to place a set of parts selected by a user in a three-dimensional (3D) world;

a joint engine(조인트 엔진) to automatically detect, without user interaction, adjacent parts within the set based on proximity of surfaces of the parts in the 3D world while parts are being moved during editing operations of the user and, upon detecting the adjacent parts, to automatically determine, without user interaction, joint types for the adjacent parts and to automatically create, without user interaction, one or more joints of the determined joint types between the adjacent parts, wherein at least some of the adjacent parts are primitive geometric shapes selected by the user for joining with other parts in the set, the primitive geometric shapes including at least one of a block, a wedge, a cylinder and a sphere, and to form one or more models for the game from the set of parts that comprises parts automatically joined, without user interaction, using the one or more joints; and

a physics engine(물리 엔진) to physically simulate motion of joined parts having one or more joints in the game and motion of the one or more models in the game.

미국 특허 제8,292,744호의 독립항인 청구항 18