ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,282, issued on March 24.
"Avatar communication" was invented by Evgeny Peshkov (Yerevan, Armenia) and Cory Grenier (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "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...