ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,659, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Communication using interactive avatars" was invented by Xiaofeng Tong (Beijing), Wenlong Li (Beijing), Yangzhou Du (Beijing), Wei Hu (Beijing) and Yimin Zhang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally this disclosure describes a video communication system that replaces actual live images of the participating users with animated avatars. A method may include selecting an avatar; initiating communication; detecting a user input; identifying the user input; identifying an animation command based on the user input; generating avatar parameters; and trans...