Avatar Service System Layered Image Composition

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional avatar services in mobile environments suffer from issues such as broken images due to rotated images and lack of dynamic expression, requiring additional plugins like Flash or Unity 3D for animation, and offer only static text-based chat experiences without the ability for avatars to move or express emotions realistically.

Innovation Solution

An avatar service system and method that stores and maintains metadata and rotated images for various actions in a database, allowing for dynamic expression of emotions and motion by selecting and combining image data and metadata for body and item layers, enabling avatars to perform actions and move within a chat service, and automatically adapting speech bubbles based on chat content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Duration of action of moving object

If conventional avatars are made mobile, then the avatar can move, but the clothes or accessories disappear causing broken images

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveavatar mobilityVSAvoidimage integrity

Core Design Contradiction:

Duration of action of moving objectVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The avatar is divided into separate layers including body layers and item layers (clothes, accessories). Each layer is independently managed and rotated according to its own metadata, preventing image distortion and broken images during avatar movement

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If additional plugins like Flash or Unity 3D are installed, then avatar animation actions can be implemented, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveavatar animation capabilityVSAvoidplugin requirements

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces complex animation plugins (Flash, Unity 3D) with a simplified image composition system. By layering and rotating 2D images according to metadata, the system achieves animation effects without requiring additional software plugins, reducing device complexity while maintaining versatility

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Device complexity

If the avatar uses a static predetermined image, then the chat service is simple, but the chat experience lacks liveliness

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvechat service simplicityVSAvoidchat engagement

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transforms static avatar images into dynamic representations by implementing multiple rotated images for each avatar layer. The avatar can now express different emotions and actions through image rotation and layer composition, enhancing chat engagement while maintaining system simplicity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS9047710B2System and method for providing an avatar service in a mobile environment

Publication Date: 2015.06.02 LY CORP

AI summary

Provided is an avatar service system and method for providing an avatar in a service provided in a mobile environment. The avatar service system may include a request receiving unit to receive a request for the avatar to perform an action, an image data selecting unit to select image data and metadata for body layers forming a body of the avatar in response to the request, and based on the selected body image data to further select image data for a plurality of item layers disposed on the body of the avatar, and an avatar action processing unit to generate action data for applying the action of the avatar based on the selected image data and metadata.