US 11,694,389 B2
Avatar output device, terminal device, avatar output method, and program
Daiki Handa, Tokyo (JP); and Hiroki Kurimoto, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to CLUSTER, INC, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Cluster, Inc, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/833,916.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-096279 (JP), filed on Jun. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0398801 A1, Dec. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 15/10 (2011.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01)
CPC G06T 15/10 (2013.01) [G06T 17/20 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
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1. An avatar output device comprising:
a memory configured to store, for each of two or more avatars, avatar information including first model information for displaying the avatar; and
processing circuitry configured to
receive, from each of two or more terminal devices, a score of at least one other avatar acquired by each of the two or more terminal devices, the score of the at least one other avatar corresponding to a terminal device other than the terminal device from which the score was received;
determine, for each of the two or more terminal devices, at least one first avatar to be displayed using the first model information and at least one second avatar to be displayed using second model information with a data size smaller than a data size of the first model information from among the two or more avatars using the score and based on a change of a position of the avatar;
acquire an avatar using the second model information for each of the at least one second avatar, and acquire an avatar using the first model information for each of the at least one first avatar; and
output the two or more acquired avatars.