Sony patents game avatars that let players customize specific traits within set limits
Sony describes a system where players can modify specific features of their game characters, known as avatars, to make them unique. The system checks game rules to ensure these changes are allowed before saving the new look to the player's profile.
In the filing’s own words
Methods and systems for personalizing an avatar for a user for use in a game includes extracting features of the avatar associated with the user. Receiving inputs from the user for customizing at least a feature of the game that is identified as customizable. Constraints of the game are determined and used during updating of a skin of the avatar, wherein the skin of the avatar is updated by adjusting the feature to include the attribute customized using the inputs of the user. The updated skin used to generate an updated avatar that is stored in a user profile of the user and used to represent the user in the game.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method for personalizing an avatar for a user for use in a game, comprising: extracting features of the avatar associated with the user, wherein one or more features of the avatar are identified to be customizable; receiving inputs from the user for customizing at least a feature of the avatar, the inputs identifying an attribute and customization of the attribute of the feature, the feature with the attributes customized with the inputs of the user making the avatar distinguishable and the user associated with the avatar distinctly identifiable in the game, the feature designated as a hallmark feature of the avatar; identifying constraints of the game, the constraints defining limits for customizing the avatar, the limits established based on compatibility requirements of the game; and updating a skin of the avatar by adjusting the feature to include the attribute customized using the inputs of the user, an extent of adjustment to the attribute is in accordance to the constraints of the game, the updating of the skin resulting in generation of an updated avatar, wherein the updated avatar is stored in a user profile of the user and used to distinctly represent the user in the game.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.)
- Official title
- PERSONALIZED AVATAR SYSTEMS AND METHODS
- Publication number
- US20260263930A1
- Application number
- 19665773
- Filed
- May 1, 2026
- Published
- Sep 10, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 19
Classified under
A63F 13/53 Human necessitiesA63F 2300/5553 Human necessitiesA63F 2300/6607 Human necessitiesMore from Sony in Games & media
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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