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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2022
Applicant:
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Inventors:
Newar Husam Al Majid, New York, NY (US);
Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Sheldon Chang, Venice, CA (US);
Chamal Samaranayake, Venice, CA (US);
Jeremy Voss, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 13/40 (2011.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01); H04L 67/306 (2022.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 13/40 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06V 40/168 (2022.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments described herein include an expressive icon system to present an animated graphical icon, wherein the animated graphical icon is generated by capture facial tracking data at a client device. In some embodiments, the system may track and capture facial tracking data of a user via a camera associated with a client device (e.g., a front facing camera, or a paired camera), and process the facial tracking data to animate a graphical icon.