Personalized avatar systems and methods
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
InventorsCeleste Bean, Yayoi Ukai
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Abstract
Methods and systems for personalizing an avatar for a user for use in a game includes extracting features of the avatar associated with the user. Receiving inputs from the user for customizing at least a feature of the game that is identified as customizable. Constraints of the game are determined and used during updating of a skin of the avatar, wherein the skin of the avatar is updated by adjusting the feature to include the attribute customized using the inputs of the user. The updated skin used to generate an updated avatar that is stored in a user profile of the user and used to represent the user in the game.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- identifying at least one feature of an avatar associated with a user, wherein the at least one feature of the avatar is modifiable;
- receiving an input for modifying the at least one feature of the avatar;
- modifying the at least one feature based at least in part on the input;
- identifying compatibility requirements of a game, wherein the compatibility requirements define limitations of the game for modifying the avatar;
- and
- updating a display of the avatar by modifying the at least one feature based at least in part on the compatibility requirements of the game.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving a request to transport an avatar associated with a user from a first game to a second game, wherein the avatar includes
- at least one modified feature and at least one hallmark feature used to distinctly identify the user from other users;
- and
- in response to the request, transporting the avatar to the second game, wherein transporting the avatar includes modifying the at least one modified feature and the at least one hallmark feature based at least in part on rendering constraints associated with the second game.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.