Patent attributes
A method of obtaining data from a video game includes: inputting a video image of the video game comprising at least one avatar, detecting a pose of the avatar in the video image, assigning one or more avatar-status boxes to one or more portions of the avatar, determining, based on the pose of the avatar, a position of at least one avatar-status box with respect to the avatar using a correlation between avatar poses and avatar-status boxes, producing avatar-status data for the avatar indicative of the position of the at least one avatar-status box with respect to the avatar in the video image, generating one or more indicator images for the avatar in accordance with the avatar-status data, and augmenting the video image of the video game comprising at least the avatar with one or more of the indicator images in response to the pose of the avatar, in which the step of determining the position of the at least one avatar-status box with respect to the avatar includes providing, to a correlation unit trained to determine correlations between avatar poses and avatar-status boxes, an input comprising at least data indicative of the pose of the avatar, and obtaining from the correlation unit data indicative of a position of the at least one avatar-status box with respect to the avatar, responsive to that input, and each avatar-status box has a corresponding classification indicative of a type of in-game interaction associated with the avatar-status box.
