US 12,223,576 B2
Apparatus and method for creating avatar
Byung Hwa Park, Seoul (KR); Jae Wang Lee, Seoul (KR); Gabee Jo, Goyang-si (KR); Ho Jeong Shin, Osan-si (KR); and Kun Sang Jung, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to illuni Inc., Seoul (KR)
Filed by illuni Inc., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/071,640.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0162392 (KR), filed on Nov. 29, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0177389 A1, May 30, 2024
Int. Cl. G06T 13/40 (2011.01); G06T 19/20 (2011.01)
CPC G06T 13/40 (2013.01) [G06T 19/20 (2013.01); G06T 2219/2016 (2013.01); G06T 2219/2021 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An avatar creation method comprising:
creating a base object of an avatar;
creating at least one partial object;
acquiring customizing information of a user;
deforming the base object and the at least one partial object based on the customizing information;
creating a user avatar with a default facial expression by projecting the at least one partial object onto the surface of the base object; and
changing a facial expression of the user avatar,
wherein the changing the facial expression of the user avatar comprises:
extracting a transformation relationship between the user avatar with the default facial expression and a prepared reference avatar with a default facial expression;
creating the user avatar for each of a plurality of reference facial expressions from the reference avatar prepared for each of the plurality of reference facial expressions based on the transformation relationship; and
changing the facial expression of the user avatar by combining the user avatar with the default facial expression and the user avatar created for each of the plurality of reference facial expressions.