ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,809, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for providing interactive avatar services" was invented by Jaeeun Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaehong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing an avatar service includes obtaining a user-uttered voice and a spatial information of a user-utterance space, transmitting the user-uttered voice and the spatial information to a server, receiving, from the server, a first avatar voice answer and an avatar facial expression sequence corresponding to the first avatar voice, which are de...