Patent ID: 9697635
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: A63F,G06F,G06K,G06T

Claim:
1. One or more processor readable storage devices having encoded thereon instructions for causing one or more processors to perform a method for automatically generating a facial avatar resembling a user in a defined art style, the method comprising: generating a user head model for the user based on captured image data by one or more processors communicatively coupled to a capture device; identifying a set of transferable user head features from the user head model which can be represented in the facial avatar based on transferable head feature rules for the defined art style; identifying a set of avatar character head features to represent the set of transferable user head features based on the transferable head feature rules for the defined art style by: generating the facial avatar in the defined art style including the set of avatar character head features; displaying the facial avatar by a display communicatively coupled to the one or more processors; updating a facial expression of the facial avatar responsive to changes detected in user facial features; and updating display of the facial avatar with the updated facial expression.