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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2022
Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited, London, GB;
Pedro Federico Quijada Leyton, London, GB;
David Erwan Damien Uberti, London, GB;
Lloyd Preston Stemple, London, GB;
Aron Giuseppe Visciglia, London, GB;
Cesare Sivo, London, GB;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited, London, GB;
Abstract
A system and computer-implemented method for controlling a virtual avatar on an electronic device, the method comprising: providing a base model that defines a virtual avatar associated with a user; receiving input data from a plurality of input sources, wherein the plurality of input sources includes an imaging source configured to provide images of the user's face, wherein each of the plurality of input sources has an active state and an inactive state, and input data is only received from an input source in the active state; processing the input data; updating the base model in response to the processed input data to update at least one property of the virtual avatar and rendering the updated base model to display the virtual avatar on a display screen.