{
  "patent_number": "US 12737996",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "Creating Your Own Image in Virtual and Augmented Reality",
  "original_title": "Providing a secured self-representation by writing to a portion if a frame buffer after other applications have written to the frame buffer, where the other applications cannot access the secured-self representation or the images received by a secure application",
  "summary": "This patent describes how an artificial reality system can show a user their own image, called a self-representation, within a virtual world by using machine learning to identify and display parts of their live image.",
  "what_it_does": "Based on the abstract, this patent describes a system that creates a digital version of a user, called a self-representation, for artificial reality environments. It works by taking an image of the user and then using a special computer program, a machine learning model, to find the 'self portion' of that image. This model has been taught to recognize parts of images that show a user from their own perspective. Once identified, this self-representation is placed into the artificial reality world, adjusted to match the user's viewpoint. The system also tracks the user's movements and updates their digital self-representation to move along with them, making it more realistic. For example, if a user is in a virtual meeting, this system could display a live, moving image of their face as their avatar.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover creating a self-representation purely from a 3D model generated without an initial image of the user.",
    "Does not cover self-representations that are not based on classifying a 'self portion' from an image using a machine learning model.",
    "Does not cover systems where the self-representation is static and does not adjust to the user's real-time movements.",
    "Does not cover displaying generic avatars or pre-made character models that do not originate from the user's live image.",
    "Does not cover methods of self-representation that do not involve positioning the representation relative to the user's perspective in the artificial reality environment."
  ],
  "filed": "2023-10-30",
  "granted": "2026-09-15",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": null,
  "holder_url": null,
  "inventors": [],
  "times_cited": 0,
  "tags": [
    "consumer_electronics",
    "software",
    "ai_ml",
    "telecommunications",
    "gaming"
  ],
  "abstract": "The disclosed artificial reality system can provide a user self representation in an artificial reality environment based on a self portion from an image of the user. The artificial reality system can generate the self representation by applying a machine learning model to classify the self portion of the image. The machine learning model can be trained to identify self portions in images based on a set of training images, with portions tagged as either depicting a user from a self-perspective or not. The artificial reality system can display the self portion as a self representation in the artificial reality environment by positioning them in the artificial reality environment relative to the user's perspective in the artificial reality environment. The artificial reality system can also identify movements of the user and can adjust the self representation to match the user's movement, providing more accurate self representations.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/12737996/providing-a-secured-self-representation-by-writing-to-a-portion-if-a-frame",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/12737996/providing-a-secured-self-representation-by-writing-to-a-portion-if-a-frame/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US12737996",
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}