SYSTEM, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR CONTROLLING AN OBJECT IN VIRTUAL WORLD

• US 20130038601A1
• Filed: 05/08/2010
• Published: 02/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Han, Seung Ju, Han, Jae Joon, Ahn, Jeong Hwan, Lee, Hyun Jeong, Park, Joon Ah, Bang, Wong Chul
• Application Number:
  US13/319,456
• Publication Number:
  US 20130038601A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/302 specially adapted for receiving control signals not targeted to a display device or game input means, e.g. vibrating driver's seat, scent dispenser
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/011 Emotion or mood input determined on the basis of sensed human body parameters such as pulse, heart rate or beat, temperature of skin, facial expressions, iris, voice pitch, brain activity patterns
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/40 of characters, e.g. humans, animals or virtual beings
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality

Abstract

A system and method of controlling characteristics of an avatar in a virtual world may generate avatar control information based on avatar information of the virtual world and a sensor control command expressing a user intent using a sensor-based input device.

Claims

1. An object controlling system, comprising:

a control command receiver to receive a control command with respect to an object of a virtual environment; and

an object controller to control the object based on the received control command and object information of the object.

2. The object controlling system of claim 1, wherein:

the object information comprises common characteristics of a virtual world object, and

the common characteristics comprises, as metadata, at least one element of an Identification for identifying the virtual world object, a virtual world object sound (VWOSound), a virtual world object scent (VWOScent), a virtual world object control (VWOControl), a virtual world object event (VWOEvent), a virtual world object behavior model (VWOBehaviorModel), and virtual world object haptic properties (VWOHapticProperties).

3. The object controlling system of claim 2, wherein the Identification comprises, as an element, at least one of a user identifier (UserID) for identifying a user associated with the virtual world object, an Ownership of the virtual world object, Rights, and Credits, and comprises, as an attribute, at least one of a name of the virtual world object and a family with another virtual world object.

4. The object controlling system of claim 2, wherein:

the VWOSound comprises, as an element, a sound resource uniform resource locator (URL) including at least one link to a sound file, and comprises, as an attribute, at least one of a sound identifier (SoundID) that is a unique identifier of an object sound, an intensity indicating a sound strength, a duration indicating a length of time where the sound lasts, a loop indicating a playing option, and a sound name.

5. The object controlling system of claim 2, wherein:

the VWOScent comprises, as an element, a scent resource URL including at least one link to a scent file, and comprises, as an attribute, at least one of a scent identifier (ScentID) that is a unique identifier of an object scent, an intensity indicating a scent strength, a duration indicating a length of time where the scent lasts, a loop indicating a playing option, and a scent name.

6. The object controlling system of claim 2, wherein:

the VWOControl comprises, as an element, a motion feature control (MotionFeatureControl) that is a set of elements controlling a position, an orientation, and a scale of the virtual world object, and comprises, as an attribute, a control identifier (ControllD) that is a unique identifier of control.

7. The object controlling system of claim 6, wherein:

the MotionFeatureControl comprises, as an element, at least one of a position of an object in a scene with a three-dimensional (3D) floating point vector, an orientation of the object in a scene with the 3D floating point vector as an Euler angle, and a scale of the object in a scene expressed as the 3D floating point vector.

8. The object controlling system of claim 2, wherein:

the VWOEvent comprises, as an element, at least one of a Mouse that is a set of mouse event elements, a Keyboard that is a set of keyboard event elements, and a user defined input (UserDefinedInput), and comprises, as an attribute, an event identifier (EventID) that is a unique identifier of an event.

9. The object controlling system of claim 8, wherein:

the Mouse comprises, as an element, at least one of a click, double click (Double_Click), a left button down (LeftBttn_down) that is an event taking place at the moment of holding down a left button of a mouse, a left button up (LeftBttn_up) that is an event taking place at the moment of releasing the left button of the mouse, a right button down (RightBttn_down) that is an event taking place at the moment of pushing a right button of the mouse, a right button up (RightBttn_up) that is an event taking place at the moment of releasing the right button of the mouse, and a move that is an event taking place while changing a position of the mouse.

10. The object controlling system of claim 8, wherein:

the Keyboard comprises, as an element, at least one of a key down (Key_Down) that is an event taking place at the moment of holding down a keyboard button and a key up (Key_Up) that is an event taking place at the moment of releasing the keyboard button.

11. The object controlling system of claim 2, wherein:

the VWOBehaviorModel comprises, as an element, at least one of a behavior input (BehaviorInput) that is an input event for generating an object behavior and a behavior output (BehaviorOutput) that is an object behavior output according to the input event.

12. The object controlling system of claim 11, wherein:

the BehaviorInput comprises an EventID as an attribute, and

the BehaviorOutput comprises, as an attribute, at least one of a SoundID, a ScentID, and an animation identifier (AnimationID).

13. The object controlling system of claim 2, wherein:

the VWOHapticProperties comprises, as an attribute, at least one of a material property (MaterialProperty) that contains parameters characterizing haptic properties, a dynamic force effect (DynamicForceEffect) that contains parameters characterizing force effects, and a tactile property (TactileProperty) that contains parameters characterizing tactile properties.

14. The object controlling system of claim 13, wherein:

the MaterialProperty comprises, as an attribute, at least one of a Stiffness of the virtual world object, a static friction (StaticFriction) of the virtual world object, a dynamic friction (DynamicFriction) of the virtual world object, a Damping of the virtual world object, a Texture containing a link to a haptic texture file, and a mass of the virtual world object.

15. The object controlling system of claim 13, wherein:

the DynamicForceEffect comprises, as an attribute, at least one of a force field (ForceField) containing a link to a force field vector file and a movement trajectory (MovementTrajectory) containing a link to a force trajectory file.

16. The object controlling system of claim 13, wherein:

the TactileProperty comprises, as an attribute, at least one of a Temperature of the virtual world object, a Vibration of the virtual world object, a Current of the virtual world object, and tactile patterns (TactilePatterns) containing a link to a tactile pattern file.

17. The object controlling system of claim 1, wherein:

the object information comprises avatar information associated with an avatar of a virtual world, and

the avatar information comprises, as the metadata, at least one element of an avatar appearance (AvatarAppearance), an avatar animation (AvatarAnimation), avatar communication skills (AvatarCommunicationSkills), an avatar personality (AvatarPersonality), avatar control features (AvatarControlFeatures), and avatar common characteristics (AvatarCC), and comprises, as an attribute, a Gender of the avatar.

18. The object controlling system of claim 17, wherein:

the AvatarAppearance comprises, as an element, at least one of a Body, a Head, Eyes, Ears, a Nose, a mouth lip (MouthLip), a Skin, a facial, a Nail, a body look (BodyLook), a Hair, eye brows (EyeBrows), a facial hair (FacialHair), facial calibration points (FacialCalibrationPoints), a physical condition (PhysicalCondition), Clothes, Shoes, Accessories, and an appearance resource (AppearanceResource).

19. The object controlling system of claim 18, wherein:

the PhysicalCondition comprises, as an element, at least one of a body strength (BodyStrength) and a body flexibility (BodyFlexibility).

20. The object controlling system of claim 17, wherein:

the AvatarAnimation comprises at least one element of an Idle, a Greeting, a Dance, a Walk, a Moves, a Fighting, a Hearing, a Smoke, Congratulations, common action (Common_Actions), specific actions (Specific_Actions), a facial expression (Facial_Expression), a body expression (Body_Expression), and an animation resource (AnimationResource).

21. The object controlling system of claim 17, wherein:

the AvatarCommunicationSkills comprises, as an element, at least one of an input verbal communication (InputVerbalCommunication), an input nonverbal communication (InputNonVerbalCommunication), an output verbal communication (OutputVerbalCommunication), and an output nonverbal communication (OutputNonVerbalCommunication), and comprises, as an attribute, at least one of a Name and a default language (DefaultLanguage).

22. The object controlling system of claim 21, wherein:

a verbal communication comprising the InputVerbalCommunication and OutputVerbalCommunication comprises a language as the element, and comprises, as the attribute, at least one of a voice, a text, and the language.

23. The object controlling system of claim 22, wherein:

the language comprises, as an attribute, at least one of a name that is a character string indicating a name of the language and a preference for using the language in the verbal communication.

24. The object controlling system of claim 23, wherein a communication preference including the preference comprises a preference level of a communication of the avatar.

25. The object controlling system of claim 22, wherein the language is set with a communication preference level (CommunicationPreferenceLevel) including a preference level for each language that the avatar is able to speak or understand.

26. The object controlling system of claim 21, wherein a nonverbal communication comprising the InputNonVerbalCommunication and the OutputNonVerbalCommunication comprises, as an element, at least one of a sign language (SignLanguage) and a cued speech communication (CuedSpeechCommumication), and comprises, as an attribute, a complementary gesture (ComplementaryGesture).

27. The object controlling system of claim 26, wherein the SignLanguage comprises a name of a language as an attribute.

28. The object controlling system of claim 17, wherein the AvatarPersonality comprises, as an element, at least one of an openness, a conscientiousness, an extraversion, an agreeableness, and a neuroticism, and selectively comprises a name of a personality.

29. The object controlling system of claim 17, wherein the AvatarControlFeatures comprises, as elements, control body features (ControlBodyFeatures) that is a set of elements controlling moves of a body and control face features (ControlFaceFeature) that is a set of elements controlling moves of a face, and selectively comprises a name of a control configuration as an attribute.

30. The object controlling system of claim 29, wherein the ControlBodyFeatures comprises, as an element, at least one of head bones (headBones), upper body bones (UpperBodyBones), down body bones (DownBodyBones), and middle body bones (MiddleBodyBones).

31. The object controlling system of claim 29, wherein the ControlFaceFeatures comprises, as an element, at least one of a head outline (HeadOutline), a left eye outline (LeftEyeOutline), a right eye outline (RightEyeOutline), a left eye brow outline (LeftEyeBrowOutline), a right eye brow outline (RightEyeBrowOutline), a left ear outline (LeftEarOutline), a right ear outline (RightEarOutline), a nose outline (NoseOutline), a mouth lip outline (MouthLipOutline), face points (FacePoints), and miscellaneous points (MiscellaneousPoints), and selectively comprises, as an attribute, a name of a face control configuration.

32. The object controlling system of claim 31, wherein at least one of elements comprised in the ControlFaceFeatures comprises, as an element, at least one of an outline (Outline4Points) having four points, an outline (Outline5Points) having five points, and an outline (Outline8Points) having eight points, and an outline (Outline14Points) having fourteen points.

33. The object controlling system of claim 31, wherein at least one of elements comprised in the ControlFaceFeatures comprises a basic number of points and selectively further comprises an additional point.

34. The object controlling system of claim 1, wherein:

the object information comprises information associated with a virtual object, and

information associated with the virtual object comprises, as metadata for expressing a virtual object of the virtual environment, at least one element of a virtual object appearance (VOAppearance), a virtual object animation (VOAnimation), and virtual object common characteristics (VOCC).

35. The object controlling system of claim 34, wherein when at least one link to an appearance file exists, the VOAppearance comprises, as an element, a virtual object URL (VirtualObjectURL) that is an element including the at least one link.

36. The object controlling system of claim 34, wherein the VOAnimation comprises, as an element, at least one of a virtual object motion (VOMotion), a virtual object deformation (VODeformation), and a virtual object additional animation (VOAdditionalAnimation), and comprises, as an attribute, at least one of an animation identifier (AnimationID), a Duration that is a length of time where an animation lasts, and a Loop that is a playing option.

37. The object controlling system of claim 1, wherein when the object is an avatar, the object controller controls the avatar based on the received control command and metadata defining an avatar face feature point and a body feature point for controlling a facial expression and a motion of the avatar.

38. The object controlling system of claim 1, wherein:

when the object is an avatar of a virtual world, the control command is generated by sensing a facial expression and a body motion of a user of a real world, and

the object controller controls the object to map characteristics of the user to the avatar of the virtual world according to the facial expression and the body motion.

39. An object controlling system, comprising:

a controller to control a virtual world object of a virtual world using a real world device,

wherein the virtual world object comprises an avatar and a virtual object, and comprises, as metadata, common characteristics of the avatar and the virtual object, and

the common characteristics comprises at least one element of an Identification for identifying the virtual world object, a virtual world object sound (VWOSound), a virtual world object scent (VWOScent), a virtual world object control (VWOControl), a virtual world object event (VWOEvent), a virtual world object behavior model (VWOBehaviorModel), and virtual world object haptic properties (VWOHapticProperties).

40. An object controlling system, comprising:

a controller to control a virtual world object of a virtual world using a real world device,

wherein the virtual world object comprises an avatar and a virtual object, and comprises avatar information associated with the avatar, and

the avatar information comprises at least one element of an avatar appearance (AvatarAppearance), an avatar animation (AvatarAnimation), avatar communication skills (AvatarCommunicationSkills), an avatar personality (AvatarPersonality), avatar control features (AvatarControlFeatures), and avatar common characteristics (AvatarCC), and comprises, as an attribute, a Gender of the avatar.

41. An object controlling system, comprising:

a controller to control a virtual world object of a virtual world using a real world device,

wherein the virtual world object comprises an avatar and a virtual object, and comprises, as metadata for expressing the virtual object of a virtual environment, information associated with the virtual object and

information associated with the virtual object comprises at least one element of a virtual object appearance (VOAppearance), a virtual object animation (VOAnimation), and virtual object common characteristics (VOCC).

42. An object controlling system, comprising:

a control command generator to generate a regularized control command based on information received from a real world device;

a control command transmitter to transmit the regularized control command to a virtual world server; and

an object controller to control a virtual world object based on information associated with the virtual world object received from the virtual world server.

50. The object controlling system of claim 42, wherein the object controller controls the virtual world object by generating a control command based on information associated with the virtual world object and transmitting the generated control command to a display.

43. An object controlling system, comprising:

an information generator to generate information associated with a corresponding virtual world object by converting a regularized control command received from a terminal according to the virtual world object; and

an information transmitter to transmit information associated with the virtual world object to the terminal,

wherein the regularized control command is generated based on information received by the terminal from a real world device.

44. An object controlling system, comprising:

an information transmitter to transmit, to a virtual world server, information received from a real world device; and

an object controller to control a virtual world object based on information associated with the virtual world object that is received from the virtual world server according to the transmitted information.

45. An object controlling system, comprising:

a control command generator to generate a regularized control command based on information received from a terminal;

an information generator to generate information associated with a corresponding virtual world object by converting the regularized control command according to the virtual world object; and

an information transmitter to transmit information associated with the virtual world object to the terminal,

wherein the received information comprises information received by the terminal from a real world device.

46. An object controlling system, comprising:

a control command generator to generate a regularized control command based on information received from a real world device;

an information generator to generate information associated with a corresponding virtual world object by converting the regularized control command according to the virtual world object; and

an object controller to control the virtual world object based on information associated with the virtual world object.

47. An object controlling system, comprising:

a control command generator to generate a regularized control command based on information received from a real world device;

an information generator to generate information associated with a corresponding virtual world object by converting the regularized control command according to the virtual world object;

an information exchanging unit to exchange information associated with the virtual world object with information associated with a virtual world object of another object controlling system; and

an object controller to control the virtual world object based on information associated with the virtual world object and the exchanged information associated with the virtual world object of the other virtual world object.

48. An object controlling system, comprising:

an information generator to generate information associated with a virtual world object based on information received from a real world device and virtual world information received from a virtual world server;

an object controller to control the virtual world object based on information associated with the virtual world object; and

a processing result transmitter to transmit, to the virtual world server, a processing result according to controlling of the virtual world object.

49. An object controlling system, comprising:

an information transmitter to transmit virtual world information to a terminal; and

an information update unit to update the virtual world information based on a processing result received from the terminal,

wherein the processing result comprises a control result of a virtual world object based on information received by the terminal from a real world device, and the virtual world information.

51. A method of controlling an object in an object controlling system, the method comprising:

receiving a control command with respect to an object of a virtual environment; and

controlling the object based on the received control command and object information of the object.

52. The method of claim 51, wherein:

the object information comprises common characteristics of a virtual world object, and

the common characteristics comprises, as metadata, at least one element of an identification for identifying the virtual world object, a virtual world object sound (VWOSound), a virtual world object scent (VWOScent), a virtual world object control (VWOControl), a virtual world object event (VWOEvent), a virtual world object behavior model (VWOBehaviorModel), and virtual world object haptic properties (VWOHapticProperties).

53. The method of claim 51, wherein:

the object information comprises avatar information associated with an avatar of a virtual world, and

the avatar information comprises, as the metadata, at least one element of an avatar appearance (AvatarAppearance), an avatar animation (AvatarAnimation), Avatar communication skills (AvatarCommunicationSkills), an avatar personality (AvatarPersonality), avatar control features (AvatarControlFeatures), and avatar common characteristics (AvatarCC), and comprises, as an attribute, a Gender of the avatar.

54. The method of claim 51, wherein:

the object information comprises information associated with a virtual object, and

information associated with the virtual object comprises, as metadata for expressing a virtual object of the virtual environment, at least one element of a virtual object appearance (VOAppearance), a virtual object animation (VOAnimation), and virtual object common characteristics (VOCC).

55. The method of claim 51, wherein the controlling comprises controlling the avatar based on the received control command and metadata defining an avatar face feature point and a body feature point for controlling a facial expression and a motion of an avatar when the object is the avatar.

56. The method of claim 51, wherein:

when the object is an avatar of a virtual world, the control command is generated by sensing a facial expression and a body motion of a user of a real world, and

the controlling comprises controlling the object to map characteristics of the user to the avatar of the virtual world according to the facial expression and the body motion.

69. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program to implement the method according to any one of claims 51 through 68.

57. An object controlling method, comprising:

controlling a virtual world object of a virtual world using a real world device,

wherein the virtual world object comprises an avatar and a virtual object, and comprises, as metadata, common characteristics of the avatar and the virtual object, and

the common characteristics comprises at least one element of an Identification for identifying the virtual world object, a virtual world object sound (VWOSound), a virtual world object scent (VWOScent), a virtual world object control (VWOControl), a virtual world object event (VWOEvent), a virtual world object behavior model (VWOBehaviorModel), and virtual world object haptic properties (VWOHapticProperties).

58. An object controlling method, comprising:

controlling a virtual world object of a virtual world using a real world device,

wherein the virtual world object comprises an avatar and a virtual object, and comprises avatar information associated with the avatar, and

the avatar information comprises at least one element of an avatar appearance (AvatarAppearance), an avatar animation (AvatarAnimation), avatar communication skills (AvatarCommunicationSkills), an avatar personality (AvatarPersonality), avatar control features (AvatarControlFeatures), and avatar common characteristics (AvatarCC), and comprises, as an attribute, a Gender of the avatar.

59. An object controlling method, comprising:

controlling a virtual world object of a virtual world using a real world device,

wherein the virtual world object comprises an avatar and a virtual object, and comprises, as metadata for expressing the virtual object of a virtual environment, information associated with the virtual object and

information associated with the virtual object comprises at least one element of a virtual object appearance (VOAppearance), a virtual object animation (VOAnimation), and virtual object common characteristics (VOCC).

60. An object controlling method, comprising:

generating a regularized control command based on information received from a real world device;

transmitting the regularized control command to a virtual world server; and

controlling a virtual world object based on information associated with the virtual world object received from the virtual world server.

68. The object controlling method according to any one of claim 60, 62, or 64 through 66, wherein the controlling of the virtual world object comprises controlling the virtual world object by generating a control command based on information associated with the virtual world object and transmitting the generated control command to a display.

61. An object controlling method, comprising:

generating information associated with a corresponding virtual world object by converting a regularized control command received from a terminal according to the virtual world object; and

transmitting information associated with the virtual world object to the terminal,

wherein the regularized control command is generated based on information received by the terminal from a real world device.

62. An object controlling method, comprising:

transmitting, to a virtual world server, information received from a real world device; and

controlling a virtual world object based on information associated with the virtual world object that is received from the virtual world server according to the transmitted information.

63. An object controlling method, comprising:

generating a regularized control command based on information received from a terminal;

generating information associated with a corresponding virtual world object by converting the regularized control command according to the virtual world object; and

transmitting information associated with the virtual world object to the terminal,

wherein the received information comprises information received by the terminal from a real world device.

64. An object controlling method, comprising:

generating a regularized control command based on information received from a real world device;

generating information associated with a corresponding virtual world object by converting the regularized control command according to the virtual world object; and

controlling the virtual world object based on information associated with the virtual world object.

65. An object controlling method, comprising:

generating a regularized control command based on information received from a real world device;

generating information associated with a corresponding virtual world object by converting the regularized control command according to the virtual world object;

exchanging information associated with the virtual world object with information associated with a virtual world object of another object controlling system; and

controlling the virtual world object based on information associated with the virtual world object and the exchanged information associated with the virtual world object of the other virtual world object.

66. An object controlling method, comprising:

generating information associated with a virtual world object based on information received from a real world device and virtual world information received from a virtual world server;

controlling the virtual world object based on information associated with the virtual world object; and

transmitting, to the virtual world server, a processing result according to controlling of the virtual world object.

67. An object controlling method, comprising:

transmitting virtual world information to a terminal; and

updating the virtual world information based on a processing result received from the terminal,

wherein the processing result comprises a control result of a virtual world object based on information received by the terminal from a real world device, and the virtual world information.

70. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a metadata structure, wherein an avatar face feature and a body feature point for controlling a facial expression and a motion of an avatar are defined.

71. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 70, wherein at least one of a head outline (HeadOutline), a left eye outline (LeftEyeOutline), a right eye outline (RightEyeOutline), a left eye brow outline (LeftEyeBrowOutline), a right eye brow outline (RightEyeBrowOutline), a left ear outline (LeftEarOutline), a right ear outline (RightEarOutline), a nose outline (NoseOutline), a lip outline (MouthLipOutline), face points (FacePoints), and miscellaneous points (MiscellaneousPoints) is expressed based on the avatar face feature point.

72. An imaging apparatus comprising:

a storage unit to store an animation clip, animation control information, and control control information, the animation control information including information indicating a part of an avatar the animation clip corresponds to and a priority, and the control control information including information indicating a part of an avatar motion data corresponds to and a priority, the motion data being generated by processing a value received from a motion sensor; and

a processing unit to compare a priority of animation control information corresponding to a first part of the avatar with a priority of control control information corresponding to the first part of the avatar, and to determine data to be applicable to the first part of the avatar.

73. The imaging apparatus of claim 72, wherein the processing unit compares the priority of the animation control information corresponding to each part of the avatar with the priority of the control control information corresponding to each part of the avatar, to determine data to be applicable to each part of the avatar, and associates the determined data to generate a motion picture of the avatar.

74. The imaging apparatus of claim 72, wherein:

information associated with a part of an avatar that each of the animation clip and the motion data corresponds to is information indicating that each of the animation clip and the motion data corresponds to one of a facial expression, a head, an upper body, a middle body, and a lower body of the avatar.

75. The imaging apparatus of claim 72, wherein the animation control information further comprises information associated with a speed of an animation of the avatar.

76. The imaging apparatus of claim 72, wherein:

the storage unit further stores information associated with a connection axis of the animation clip, and

the processing unit associates the animation clip with the motion data based on information associated with the connection axis of the animation clip.

77. The imaging apparatus of claim 76, wherein the processing unit extracts information associated with a connection axis from the motion data, and associates the animation clip and the motion data by enabling the connection axis of the animation clip to correspond to the connection axis of the motion data.

78. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program implemented in a computer system comprising a processor and a memory, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising:

a first set of instructions to store animation control information and control control information; and

a second set of instructions to associate an animation clip and motion data generated from a value received from a motion sensor, based on the animation control information corresponding to each part of an avatar and the control control information,

wherein the animation control information comprises information associated with a corresponding animation clip, and an identifier indicating the corresponding animation clip corresponds to one of a facial expression, a head, an upper body, a middle body, and a lower body of an avatar, and

the control control information comprises an identifier indicating real-time motion data corresponds to one of the facial expression, the head, the upper body, the middle body, and the lower body of an avatar.

79. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 78, wherein:

the animation control information further comprises a priority, and

the control control information further comprises a priority.

80. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 79, wherein the second set of instructions compares a priority of animation control information corresponding to a first part of an avatar with a priority of control control information corresponding to the first part of the avatar, to determine data to be applicable to the first part of the avatar.

81. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 78, wherein the animation control information further comprises information associated with a speed of an animation of the avatar.

82. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 78, wherein the second set of instructions extracts information associated with a connection axis from the motion data, and associates the animation clip and the motion data by enabling the connection axis of the animation clip to correspond to the connection axis of the motion data.

83. An object controlling system, comprising:

a control command receiver to receive a control command with respect to an object of a virtual environment; and

an object controller to control the object based on the received control command and object information of the object, the object information comprising;

common characteristics of a virtual world object comprising, as metadata, at least one element of an Identification for identifying the virtual world object, a virtual world object sound (VWOSound), a virtual world object scent (VWOScent), a virtual world object control (VWOControl), a virtual world object event (VWOEvent), a virtual world object behavior model (VWOBehaviorModel), and virtual world object haptic properties (VWOHapticProperties); and

avatar information associated with an avatar of a virtual world comprising, as metadata, at least one element of an avatar appearance (AvatarAppearance), an avatar animation (AvatarAnimation), avatar communication skills (AvatarCommunicationSkills), an avatar personality (AvatarPersonality), avatar control features (AvatarControlFeatures), and avatar common characteristics (AvatarCC), and comprises, as an attribute, a Gender of the avatar.

84. The object controlling system of claim 83, wherein:

the object information comprises information associated with a virtual object, and

information associated with the virtual object comprises, as metadata for expressing a virtual object of the virtual environment, at least one element of a virtual object appearance (VOAppearance), a virtual object animation (VOAnimation), and virtual object common characteristics (VOCC).

85. The object controlling system of claim 83, wherein when the object is an avatar, the object controller controls the avatar based on the received control command and metadata defining an avatar face feature point and a body feature point for controlling a facial expression and a motion of the avatar.

86. The object controlling system of claim 83, wherein:

when the object is an avatar of a virtual world, the control command is generated by sensing a facial expression and a body motion of a user of a real world, and

the object controller controls the object to map characteristics of the user to the avatar of the virtual world according to the facial expression and the body motion.