US 12,586,282 B2 · Avatar communication

Abstract

An avatar communication system can enable display on a local user device of an avatar image corresponding to a remote user. The avatar image can be generated using an avatar model and expression data. The expression data can be extracted from image data of the remote user acquired by a remote device. The local user device can be configured to display or provide communication data received from the remote device, together with the avatar image. The image data used to generate the avatar image can be obtained contemporaneously with the communication data or may be associated with the communication data. The expression data and the communication data can be obtained through the same channel, or through separate channels. The local user device can generate expression data of the local user and provide the expression data to the remote device, together with communication data of the local user.

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Dependent claims

An avatar communication method, comprising:

establishing an audio communication channel with a remote system, wherein audio packets are communicated through the audio communication channel;
receiving first audio communication data through the audio communication channel from the remote system;
receiving first expression data from the remote system, the first expression data including position, orientation, and scale information, corresponding to the received first audio communication data, and included into control fields of the audio packets;
obtaining a first avatar model associated with the remote system;
generating an avatar image using the first expression data and the first avatar model;
and
displaying the avatar image and providing the first audio communication data to a user.

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An avatar communication system, comprising:

at least one processor;
and
at least one non-transitory, computer-readable medium containing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the avatar communication system to perform operations, comprising:
establishing an audio communication channel with a remote system, wherein audio packets are communicated through the audio communication channel;
receiving first audio communication data through the audio communication channel from the remote system;
receiving first expression data from the remote system, the first expression data including position, orientation, and scale information, corresponding to the received first audio communication data, and included into control fields of the audio packets;
obtaining a first avatar model associated with the remote system;
generating an avatar image using the first expression data and the first avatar model;
and
displaying the avatar image and providing the first audio communication data to a user of the avatar communication system.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Avatar communication

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Abstract

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