US Patent Issued to Apple on April 21 for "Progressive body capture of user body for building an avatar of user" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,896, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Progressive body capture of user body for building an avatar of user" was invented by Victor Ng-Thow Hing (Los Altos, Calif.) and Timothy B. Henning (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that progressively capture data representing an actual appearance of a user for creating a 3D avatar of the user. Image sensors at a user's electronic device may capture images (or other sensor data) of different portions of a user's body over time. Images and other sensor data that is c...