Apple Inc.

Nina Damasky

Aurelio Guzmán

Nicolas V Scapel

Hoan K Pham

Guillaume P Barlier

Thomas Goossens

Bruno M Sommer

Alexandre R Moha

Justin D Stoyles

Thibaut Weise

Brian Amberg

Systems and methods for generating a video of an emoji that has been puppeted using inputs from image, depth, and audio. The inputs can capture facial expressions of a user, eye, eyebrow, mouth, and head movements. A pose, held by the user, can be detected that can be used to generate supplemental animation. The emoji can further be animated using physical properties associated with the emoji and captured movements. An emoji of a dog can have its ears move in response to an up-and-down movement, or a shaking of the head. The video can be sent in a message to one or more recipients. A sending device can render the puppeted video in accordance with hardware and software capabilities of a recipient's computer device.

Animated representation of facial expression

Emojicon puppeting

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Nina Damasky