Method and apparatus for generating an avatar

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9245369-B2
Application number	US-201113808619-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 5, 2011
Priority date	Jul 6, 2010
Publication date	Jan 26, 2016
Grant date	Jan 26, 2016

Abstract

Disclosed herein are a method and an apparatus for creating an avatar. The method for creating an avatar according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes receiving information on an appearance of an object to be created into an avatar; generating avatar appearance type metadata using the information on the appearance; creating the avatar using the avatar appearance type metadata, wherein the avatar appearance type metadata include at least one of skin information, hair information, nails information, and teeth information. The exemplary embodiments of the present invention can create the avatar capable of facilitating the differentiation with another avatar while more approximating the reality, by adding more detailed data in addition to the data for the existing appearance so as to generate the avatar.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for creating an avatar, comprising:
receiving information on an appearance of an object to be created into an avatar;
generating avatar appearance type metadata using the information on the appearance; and
creating the avatar using the avatar appearance type metadata after generating the avatar appearance type metadata,
wherein the avatar appearance type metadata include skin information, hair information, nails information, teeth information, and expression information to show the appearance, and
wherein the expression information includes an appearance resource information which represents a URL of a file including a description for the avatar, a facial calibration points information which is a set of elements that are calibration points for face feature control, and a body condition information which includes a set of elements for describing the body condition of the avatar like body strength and body flexibility.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the skin information includes at least one of face skin information and body skin information.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the face skin information includes at least one of skin pigment information, skin ruddiness information, skin rainbow color information, facial definition information, rosy complexion information, freckles information, wrinkles information, and face skin type information.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the body skin information includes at least one of skin pigment information, body freckles information, and wrinkles information.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the hair information includes at least one of facial hair information and body hair information.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the facial hair information includes at least one of facial hair thickness information, facial sideburns information, facial moustache information, facial chin curtains information, and facial soul patch information.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the body hair information includes at least one of body hair color information and body hair thickness information.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the nails information includes at least one of finger nail information and toe nail information.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the finger nail information includes at least one nail polish information and nail polish color information.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the toe nail information includes at least of nail polish information and nail polish color.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the teeth information includes at least one of teeth color information, brackets information, and gap information.

12. An apparatus for creating an avatar, comprising:
a receiver configured to receive information on an appearance of an object to be created into an avatar;
a processor configured to generate avatar appearance type metadata using the information on the appearance; and
configured to create the avatar using the avatar appearance type metadata after generating the avatar appearance type metadata,
wherein the avatar appearance type metadata include skin information, hair information, nails information, teeth information, and expression information to show the appearance, and
wherein the expression information includes an appearance resource information which represents a URL of a file including a description for the avatar, a facial calibration points information which is a set of elements that are calibration points for face feature control, and a body condition information which includes a set of elements for describing the body condition of the avatar like body strength and body flexibility.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the skin information includes at least one of face skin information and body skin information.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the face skin information includes at least one of skin pigment information, skin ruddiness information, skin rainbow color information, facial definition information, rosy complexion information, freckles information, wrinkles information, and face skin type information.

15. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the body skin information includes at least one of skin pigment information, body freckles information, and wrinkles information.

16. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the hair information includes at least one of facial hair information and body hair information.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the facial hair information includes at least one of facial hair thickness information, facial sideburns information, facial moustache information, facial chin curtains information, and facial soul patch information.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the body hair information includes at least one of body hair color information and body hair thickness information.

19. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the nails information includes at least one of finger nail information and toe nail information.

20. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the finger nail information includes at least one nail polish information and nail polish color information.

21. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the toe nail information includes at least of nail polish information and nail polish color.

22. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the teeth information includes at least one of teeth color information, brackets information, and gap information.

Assignees

• Joo Sang Hyun
• Jeong Il Kwon
• Choi Byoung Tae
• Korea Electronics Telecomm

Inventors

• Joo Sang Hyun
• Jeong Il Kwon
• Choi Byoung Tae

Classifications

• G06T13/00 Primary

  Animation · CPC title

• G06T13/40 Primary

  of characters, e.g. humans, animals or virtual beings · CPC title

• A63F13/00

  Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions · CPC title

• G06F17/40 Primary

  Data acquisition and logging (for input to computer G06F3/00) · CPC title

• G06T17/00

  Three-dimensional [3D] modelling for computer graphics · CPC title