Patent ID: 7224367

Claim:
A face information transmission system, comprising: image acquisition means to acquire an image of a face of a subject; first generation means for generating first image information relating to said subject and including positions of characteristic points of said face, based on the acquired image; second generation means for generating second image information according to a facial expression of the face of said subject based on the generated first image information, said second image information being an image of a character that is different than said face of the subject; transmission means for transmitting the image of the character to a different communication terminal, utterance acquisition means for acquiring utterances issued by said subject; and image judgment means for judging whether or not said first image information satisfies prescribed conditions, wherein, when said image judgment means judges that said first image information satisfies prescribed conditions, said second generation means performs a first process for generating second image information according to the facial expression of the face of said subject based, at least, on said first image information, and when said image judgment means judges that said first image information does not satisfy prescribed conditions, said second generation means performs a second process for generating second image information according to the facial expression of the face of said subject based on said utterances, said second process being a different computer-implemented process than said first process and does not use information regarding the positions of characteristic points of said face.