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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2010
Chi-youn Park, Busan-si, KR;
Young-kyoo Hwang, Seoul, KR;
Jung-bae Kim, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
An avatar facial expression representation technology is provided. The avatar facial expression representation technology estimates changes in emotion and emphasis in a user's voice from vocal information, and changes in mouth shape of the user from pronunciation information of the voice. The avatar facial expression technology tracks a user's facial movements and changes in facial expression from image information and may represent avatar facial expressions based on the result of the these operations. Accordingly, the avatar facial expressions can be obtained which are similar to actual facial expressions of the user.