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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2000
Norihiko Matsuura, Yokohama, JP;
Shohei Sugawara, Yokosuka, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The purpose is to provide a system and a method for 3-D shared virtual environment communication system to enable a plurality of users to share a common virtual environment so that real-time facial expressions of other users can be displayed on user's own terminal and voices heard. The system thus facilitate communications among the users in such cases as virtual conferencing environment. The method of operating the communication system is executed by computer application programs that contains a user information control section broadcasts information input from the facial expression input section , voice input section and motion information input section , to other user terminals through the network under the control of the network control section . The avatar information managing section , script control section , virtual environment control section and virtual environment generation section displays other users' avatar on user's own terminal.