US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Oct. 21 for "Appearance editing method and apparatus for virtual pet, terminal, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,816, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Appearance editing method and apparatus for virtual pet, terminal, and storage medium" was invented by Yingting Zhu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An appearance editing method and apparatus for a virtual pet are provided. The process may include obtain a first texture mapping of the virtual pet, the first texture mapping comprising a first appearance feature of the virtual pet; generate a target texture mapping corresponding to the a target appearance feature in response to an editing operation on the target appearance feature, wh...