US Patent Issued to NEC on July 7 for "Avatar generation system, avatar generation method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,934, issued on July 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Avatar generation system, avatar generation method, and recording medium" was invented by Kiri Inayoshi (Tokyo) and Kentaro Nishida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An avatar generation system includes an acquisition unit, an execution unit, a detection unit, and an output unit. The acquisition unit acquires setting data for bones and meshes of an avatar. The execution unit executes processing of changing a posture of the avatar based on the setting data and a defined movement. The detection unit detects a state of penetration between the meshes constituting the avatar ba...