Customized Avatar Media Overlays for Diverse User Representation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional emoji and graphics in electronic messaging lack diversity, failing to represent individual users based on appearance, gender, or ethnicity, and do not distinguish between interactions.
Innovation Solution
Generate and display media overlays with customized avatars of users, incorporating their characteristics, location, and event information, which can be applied to media content items.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional emoji and graphics are used in electronic messaging, then the messaging system remains simple and easy to operate, but the representation of individual users lacks diversity and personalization
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses avatar templates that copy and adapt user characteristics (appearance, gender, ethnicity) into standardized graphical representations. These templates can be customized with user-provided images or generated automatically, creating diverse avatar representations without requiring complex real-time rendering systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows users to modify avatar parameters such as appearance, clothing, and accessories to reflect their personal characteristics. This parameter customization enables diverse user representation while maintaining a manageable system architecture based on template modification rather than generation from scratch.
2Adaptability or versatility
If generic emoji are used for all users, then the system maintains simplicity and uniformity, but conversations lack visual personality and cannot distinguish between different interactions
Solution Approach 1:
The avatar system is segmented into modular components including base avatar, clothing layers, accessories, and expressions. This segmentation allows different combinations to be assembled to represent unique user characteristics and conversation contexts, enabling conversation differentiation through systematic combination rather than creating entirely new graphics each time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides dynamic avatar customization where users can adjust various attributes based on conversation context, time of day, or personal preference. Avatars can change appearance, pose, or accessories dynamically while maintaining consistency with user identity, enabling differentiated conversations without requiring completely new visual elements for each interaction.
3Loss of information
If customized avatars with user characteristics are generated, then user representation and interaction differentiation are enhanced, but the system complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of generating entirely new avatars from scratch, the system copies and adapts existing avatar templates to represent user characteristics. User photos or descriptions are mapped to predefined template structures, preserving user characteristics while avoiding the computational complexity of creating unique 3D models or illustrations for each user.
Solution Approach 2:
Avatar templates and characteristic mappings are prepared in advance before actual messaging occurs. The system pre-defines how user characteristics should be represented visually, so that during normal messaging operations, avatars can be generated or applied quickly without complex real-time processing, reducing the perceived system complexity during use.
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AI summary
Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging and imaging software and systems by generating and displaying media overlays with avatars of different users. For example, media overlays can be generated by the system and displayed in conjunction with media content (e.g., images and/or video) generated by an image-capturing device (e.g., a digital camera).