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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2011
System and method of customizing animated entities for use in a multimedia communication application
Joern Ostermann, Morganville, NJ (US);
Mehmet Reha Civanlar, Middletown, NJ (US);
Ana Cristina Andres Del Valle, Barcelona, ES;
Patrick Haffner, Atlantic Highlands, NJ (US);
Joern Ostermann, Morganville, NJ (US);
Mehmet Reha Civanlar, Middletown, NJ (US);
Ana Cristina Andres del Valle, Barcelona, ES;
Patrick Haffner, Atlantic Highlands, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a method is provided for creating a personal animated entity for delivering a multi-media message from a sender to a recipient. An image file from the sender may be received by a server. The image file may include an image of an entity. The sender may be requested to provide input with respect to facial features of the image of the entity in preparation for animating the image of the entity. After the sender provides the input with respect to the facial features of the image of the entity, the image of the entity may be presented as a personal animated entity to the sender to preview. Upon approval of the preview from the sender, the image of the entity may be presented as a sender-selectable personal animated entity for delivering the multi-media message to the recipient.