US Patent Issued to Apple on July 7 for "Context-based avatar quality" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,961, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Context-based avatar quality" was invented by Hayden James Barsotti (Mountain View, Calif.), Connor A. Smith (San Jose, Calif.), Alexandre Da Veiga (San Francisco), Leanid Vouk (San Carlos, Calif.) and Sebastian P. Herscher (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide a communication session in which a first device receives and uses streamed avatar data to render views that include a time-varying avatar, e.g., video content of some or all of another user sent from the othe...