Virtual avatar animation based on facial feature movement

This invention describes a system that makes a virtual character, or avatar, move on a screen in response to a person's face. An electronic device uses its camera to watch a person's face and then changes the avatar's appearance based on how the person's facial features move. Specifically, the system focuses on animating the avatar when one facial feature moves independently of another.

Why it matters: Filed before the widespread availability of highly optimized, off-the-shelf facial tracking and animation SDKs. Modern mobile device cameras and processors, combined with advancements in real-time computer vision and AI, make the core facial detection and avatar mapping significantly easier to implement now than in 2019.

Status: Not in forceListed as no longer active. The specific reason is not in the record we hold.
How hard to build: SpecializedSoftware logic, facial detection, 3D animation

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