ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,002, issued on May 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Selecting avatar for videoconference" was invented by Yinda Zhang (Daly City, Calif.) and Ruofei Du (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include selecting, from at least a first avatar and a second avatar based on at least one attribute of a calendar event associated with a user, a session avatar, the first avatar being based on a first set of images of a user wearing a first outfit and the second avatar being based on a second set of images of the user wearing a second outfit, and presenting the session avatar during a videoconference, ...