US 12,067,670 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 May 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/143,700.
Application 18/143,700 is a continuation of application No. 17/833,916, filed on Jun. 7, 2022, granted, now 11,694,389.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-096279 (JP), filed on Jun. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0274495 A1, Aug. 31, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
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 a request, from a first terminal device having a corresponding changed position information of the avatar, including (1) one or more sets of an avatar identifier of any other avatar whose determination result has changed from a previous determination result and (2) the changed position information;
receive, from each of two or more terminal devices, a determination result corresponding to each of one or more avatar identifiers included in the request from the terminal device based on a score of at least one other avatar acquired by each of the two or more terminal devices in association with an avatar identifier, the determination result of the at least one other avatar corresponding to a terminal device other than the first 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 determination result;
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 to construct display information to be changed in accordance with the changed position of the avatar of the first terminal device.