Patent ID: 9386268
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K,G06T,G10L,H04M,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A system, comprising: a user input device configured to capture a user input; communication circuitry configured to transmit and receive information; a microphone configured to capture sound and convert the captured sound into a corresponding audio signal; and one or more non-transitory storage memories having stored thereon, individually or in combination, instructions that when executed by one or more processors result in the following operations comprising: selecting an avatar; receiving at least one image of a user; passively animating the avatar based at least in part on facial mapping of the at least one image, so as to produce a passively animated avatar for display on a remote device, wherein the passively animated avatar mimics motion of a body part of a user; detecting a user input with said user input device, said user input comprising at least one of a touch and a gesture; determining one or more animation commands associated with a user input identifier corresponding to a detected user input; determining an interactive animation for said passively animated avatar based at least in part on said one or more animation commands; modifying said passively animated avatar with said interactive animation, so as to produce an interactively animated avatar by deforming at least a portion of said passively animated avatar; transmitting a signal to said remote device, said signal configured to cause said interactively animated avatar to be displayed on said remote device; capturing user speech and converting the user speech into a corresponding user speech signal; transforming the user speech signal into an avatar speech signal; and transmitting the avatar speech signal to the remote device.