ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,414, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SHANGHAI BILIBILI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).
"Avatar livestreaming method and apparatus" was invented by Jialing Zhu (Shanghai) and Jiangtao Hu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses an avatar livestreaming method. The method includes monitoring a selection of an avatar as an online streamer by a user; starting, by a live process, a rendering process in response to detecting the selection; creating, by the rendering process, a shared texture configured to enable the live process to obtain a rendering result; creating, by the live process, a shared memory throug...