Patents by Inventor Robert Rui Otani

Robert Rui Otani has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Preserving the state of an avatar associated with a physical location in an augmented reality environment
    Patent number: 10846902
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for generating an avatar in an augmented reality environment on a computing device, associating that avatar with a particular physical location, configuring the avatar to perform certain actions, configuring access rights for the avatar, and then storing the state of the avatar. At a later time, the user of another computing device visits the same physical location, views the physical location through the computing device, and the avatar is inserted into the image on the display of computing device and then performs the actions previously specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: IMVU, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Kevin Reeves, Robert Rui Otani
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING CHARACTERISTICS FROM A DIGITAL PHOTO AND AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL AVATAR
    Publication number: 20200202604
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for generating an avatar from an image of a face using an avatar generation engine executed by a processing unit of a computing device. The avatar generation engine receives the image, identifies a face in the image, crops a face in the image to generate a cropped face image, detects facial landmarks in the cropped face image, determines an ethnicity and a gender based on the cropped face image, selects a base facial rig from a set of stored facial rigs based on one or more of ethnicity, gender, hairstyle, skin color, hair color, body hair, presence of eyeglasses, presence of a hat, and presence of lipstick, alters the base facial rig based on the facial landmarks to generate a customized facial rig, and adds facial attributes to the customized facial rig based on the facial characteristics to generate the avatar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Robert Rui OTANI, Xuanyu ZHONG, Tony Sin-Yu PENG
  • Preserving The State Of An Avatar Associated With A Physical Location In An Augmented Reality Environment
    Publication number: 20190272661
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for generating an avatar in an augmented reality environment on a computing device, associating that avatar with a particular physical location, configuring the avatar to perform certain actions, configuring access rights for the avatar, and then storing the state of the avatar. At a later time, the user of another computing device visits the same physical location, views the physical location through the computing device, and the avatar is inserted into the image on the display of computing device and then performs the actions previously specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Peter Kevin Reeves, Robert Rui Otani