ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,784, issued on March 18, was assigned to Fujian TQ Digital Inc (Fuzhou, China) and Central China Normal University (Wuhan, China).
"Emotional evolution method and terminal for virtual avatar in educational metaverse" was invented by Dejian Liu (Fuzhou, China), Yan Ge (Fuzhou, China), Jing Peng (Wuhan, China), Zheng Zhong (Wuhan, China) and Jian Xu (Wuhan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an emotional evolution method and terminal for a virtual avatar in educational metaverse. By collecting expression data and audio data of the virtual avatar, and performing emotional feature extraction based on the expression data ...