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US 12,223,576 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for creating avatar
AssigneeIlluni Inc.
InventorsByung Hwa Park, Jae Wang Lee, Gabee Jo, Ho Jeong Shin, Kun Sang Jung
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Abstract
Disclosed is an avatar creation method including creating a base object of an avatar, creating at least one partial object; acquiring customizing information of a user, deforming the base object and the at least one partial object based on the customizing information; and creating a user avatar with a default facial expression by projecting the at least one partial object onto the surface of the base object.
Claims14
An avatar creation method comprising:
- creating a base object of an avatar;
- creating at least one partial object;
- acquiring customizing information of a user;
- deforming the base object and the at least one partial object based on the customizing information;
- creating a user avatar with a default facial expression by projecting the at least one partial object onto the surface of the base object;
- and
- changing a facial expression of the user avatar,
- wherein the changing the facial expression of the user avatar comprises:
- extracting a transformation relationship between the user avatar with the default facial expression and a prepared reference avatar with a default facial expression;
- creating the user avatar for each of a plurality of reference facial expressions from the reference avatar prepared for each of the plurality of reference facial expressions based on the transformation relationship;
- and
- changing the facial expression of the user avatar by combining the user avatar with the default facial expression and the user avatar created for each of the plurality of reference facial expressions.
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An avatar creation apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor,
- wherein the at least one processor is configured to perform a process of creating a base object of an avatar;
- a process of creating at least one partial object;
- a process of acquiring customizing information of a user;
- a process of deforming the base object and the at least one partial object based on the customizing information;
- a process of creating a user avatar with a default facial expression by projecting the at least one partial object onto the surface of the base object;
- and a process of changing a facial expression of the user avatar,
- wherein the process of changing the facial expression of the user avatar comprises:
- a process of extracting a transformation relationship between the user avatar with the default facial expression and a prepared reference avatar with a default facial expression;
- a process of creating the user avatar for each of a plurality of reference facial expressions from the reference avatar prepared for each of the plurality of reference facial expressions based on the transformation relationship;
- and
- a process of changing the facial expression of the user avatar by combining the user avatar with the default facial expression and the user avatar created for each of the plurality of reference facial expressions.
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