US mobile developer Vidiator said that it has been awarded three patents that it says are key to offering 3D avatars for multimedia messaging on a mobile phone. At Faultline we have long been intrigued by the potential widespread use of avatars, or more interestingly what we have always called waldos. Avatars are images that represent a particular user, and may look nothing like him or her, waldos begin with a person’s actual features, and layers an appearance on top of those live features. Avatars never smile, but Waldos smile when you smile, and carry your other expressions. But these technologies have never really come of age on the PC, on web sites and certainly not on processing constrained mobile…