US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on March 17 for "Custom character creation based on body movement and user input data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,339, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Custom character creation based on body movement and user input data" was invented by Victoria Dorn (San Mateo, Calif.) and Mahdi Azmandian (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a character for use in a video game is provided, including: receiving captured video of a user; analyzing the captured video to identify movements of the user; using the identified movements of the user to define one or more animations of a character; receiving descriptive input generated by the user; determining game-specific constraint...