Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Peter Alan Ridgway

Christian F Huitema

Nicholas David Burton

Yancey Christopher Smith

David James Quinn

Royal D Winchester

Iain A McFadzen

Andrew John Bastable

Carol Clark

David T Hill

Technology is disclosed for automatically generating a facial avatar resembling a user in a defined art style. One or more processors generate a user 3D head model for the user based on captured 3D image data from a communicatively coupled 3D image capture device. A set of user transferable head features from the user 3D head model are automatically represented by the one or more processors in the facial avatar in accordance with rules governing transferable user 3D head features. In some embodiments, a base or reference head model of the avatar is remapped to include the set of user head features. In other embodiments, an avatar head shape model is selected based on the user 3D head model, and the transferable user 3D head features are represented in the avatar head shape model.

Generating an avatar from real time image data

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Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Peter Alan Ridgway