Patent Document ID: 20150123967
Application ID: 14070481
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for automatically generating a facial avatar resembling a user in a defined art style comprising: capturing three dimensional (3D) image data of user head features including facial features by a 3D capture device; generating a user 3D head model for the user based on the captured 3D image data by one or more processors communicatively coupled to the 3D capture device; identifying a set of transferable user head features from the user 3D 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; generating the facial avatar in the defined art style including the set of avatar character head features; and displaying the facial avatar by a display communicatively coupled to the one or more processors.