# US 2018/0024726 A1 · Personified Emoji > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2018/0024726 A1 - Document ID: US20180024726A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/216,131 - Filed: 2016-07-21 - Published: 2018-01-25 - Earliest claimed: 2016-07-21 - Assignees: Cives Consulting AS - Applicants: Cives Consulting AS - Inventors: Gunnar Hviding - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20180024726A1 ## CPC - G06F 3/04842: Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) - G06F 3/04845: for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour - G06T 11/60: Creating or editing images; Combining images with text - G06V 40/165: {using facial parts and geometric relationships} - G06V 40/171: {Local features and components; Facial parts (eye characteristics G06V40/18); Occluding parts, e.g. glasses; Geometrical relationships} - G06V 40/174: {Facial expression recognition} - G06V 40/175: {Static expression} - G06T 2207/30201: Face - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G06T: IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING ## Abstract Systems and methods of generating personified emoji include a digital image of a user. Facial features identified in the digital image are represented by facial data generated from the digital image. An emoji template is accessed and modified with the facial data to create a personified emoji which contains embedded information about the user's face, as represented in the digital image. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method of generating a personified emoji, the method comprising: providing an emoji template that is configured to be modified; obtaining a digital image of a user; identifying a plurality of facial features in the digital image; quantifying each of the plurality of facial features to generate facial data in a facial dataset, wherein the facial data is representative of the facial features identified in the digital image; and modifying the emoji template with the facial data of the facial dataset to create the personified emoji, wherein the personified emoji is representative of the facial features identified in the digital image. ### Claim 2 (canceled) ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the emoji template comprises a plurality of emoji features, each emoji feature corresponds to a facial feature of the plurality of facial features quantified in the facial dataset. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3, wherein each emoji feature is modified based upon the facial data for the corresponding facial feature in the facial dataset. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of facial features includes a boundary of the user's face, wherein quantifying each of the plurality of facial features includes quantifying the boundary, further comprising registering the boundary quantified to an emoji template boundary in the emoji template to produce a registration between the facial dataset and the emoji template, wherein the emoji template comprises at least one emoji feature, and further comprising transforming the at least one emoji feature based upon the facial data for the facial feature in the facial dataset that corresponds to the emoji feature and the registration between the facial dataset and the emoji template. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The method of claim 5, wherein the at least one emoji feature is a plurality of emoji features, the facial data identifies a location of each of the plurality of facial features and the method further comprises locating each emoji feature on the emoji template according to the location of each of the plurality of facial features identified in the facial dataset. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, further comprising registering the facial dataset to the emoji template, wherein emoji features are located based upon the facial data that identifies the location of each of the plurality of facial features and the registration between the facial dataset and the emoji template. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, further comprising transforming the facial data based upon the registration between the facial dataset and the emoji template. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of facial features comprises at least the user's eyes and the facial data comprises at least one of a size, shape, and angle of the user's eyes. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The method of claim 9, wherein the plurality of facial features further comprises the user's mouth and the facial data comprises at least one of a width and a curvature of the user's mouth and at least one relative distance between the eyes and the mouth. ### Claim 11 (depends on 21) The method of claim 21, wherein the plurality of facial features comprises at least one of the user's eyebrows, nose, hair, and facial hair. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a user selection of the emoji template from a plurality of available emoji templates. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving a user selection of at least one manual emoji feature from a plurality of manual emoji features; and modifying the personified emoji to further include the at least one manual emoji feature. ### Claim 14 A system for producing a personified emoji, the system comprising: a first non-transitory memory configured to store an emoji template; a processor configured to receive a digital image of a user, configured to identify a plurality of facial features in the digital image, and to generate a facial dataset of facial data quantifying the facial features in the digital image, wherein the processor is further configured to modify the emoji template with the facial data of the facial dataset to produce the personified emoji; and a second non-transitory memory configured to store the personified emoji. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The system of claim 14, wherein the processor is further configured to apply at least one facial recognition algorithm to the digital image to identify the plurality of facial features in the image. ### Claim 16 (depends on 14) The system of claim 14, wherein the second non-transitory memory is accessible by at least one interpersonal communication application for selective use of the personified emoji during interpersonal communication between the user and a recipient. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The system of claim 16, wherein the at least one interpersonal communication application is at least partially executed by the processor. ### Claim 18 A system for personified emoji, the system comprising: means for creating a personified emoji comprising a plurality of modified facial feature templates, the plurality of modified facial feature templates being produced by modifying facial feature templates with facial data representative of facial features identified in a digital image of a user, the modified facial feature templates being arranged in accordance with the facial data to create the personified emoji. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The system of claim 18, further comprising: means for producing the facial data by quantifying facial features identified in the digital image of the user. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) The system of claim 19, further comprising: means for interpersonal electronic communication using the personified emoji.