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RSS FeedsApple Patents Avatar Creation App That Can Place Digital Versions of You in Messages and FaceTime
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21 february 2017 16:01:07

 
Apple Patents Avatar Creation App That Can Place Digital Versions of You in Messages and FaceTime
(MacRumors iPhone)
 


Apple today has been granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office regarding an `avatar editing environment,` which is the company`s patent terminology for a Mii-like app that users can visit to craft a digitized likeness of themselves to use throughout the Apple ecosystem. The patent was originally filed back in October 2011 but was just published by the USPTO today (via Patently Apple). Apple`s patent explains that its avatar editing environment would let users create `a representation of their alter ego.` This includes a collection of editing features such as different eyes, ears, mouth, skin color, hair, teeth, smile, facial expressions, eyebrows, hair, beard, glasses, hats, and even more items related to the expression of each person`s unique identity and fashion. While Apple`s new patent sounds like a basic Avatar editing system, the company`s wording goes into deeper detail about how far and wide the digital personalities might be implemented across its services. The editor would primarily be its own application on iOS devices, but the patent also notes that Apple could add it as an online addition to its website and give its API to developers so they could implement the avatars into games, social networks, and more. Once an avatar is created, the user would then discover the character can be placed -- and even animated -- in a number of iOS locations, including in Messages, Address Book, and FaceTime. In Messages, users could set a specific animation of their avatar to trigger in response to certain events, so while you`re waiting for a text from a friend your avatar could be animated on their screen to be tapping its foot in impatience, or sleeping. In execution, some of Apple`s avatar features sound similar to the popular Bitmoji app. The patent also describes a feature where a user`s face would be replaced in video chat, likely within FaceTime, by the avatar that they have created with Apple`s editin ...


 
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