Avatar animation, social networking and touch screen applications
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsWenlong Li, Xiaofeng Tong, Yangzhou Du, Thomas Sachson, Yunzhen Wang
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Abstract
Systems and methods may provide for detecting a condition with respect to one or more frames of a video signal associated with a set of facial motion data and modifying, in response to the condition, the set of facial motion data to indicate that the one or more frames lack facial motion data. Additionally, an avatar animation may be initiated based on the modified set of facial motion data. In one example, the condition is one or more of a buffer overflow condition and a tracking failure condition.
Claims23
An apparatus to animate avatars, comprising:
- a frame monitor, implemented as least partly in one or more of configurable logic or fixed-functionality logic hardware, to detect a condition with respect to one or more frames of a video signal associated with a set of facial motion data related to an image capture of a face of one or more individuals;
- a motion module, implemented as least partly in one or more of configurable logic or fixed-functionality logic hardware, to modify, in response to the condition, the set of facial motion data to indicate that the one or more frames of the video signal associated with the captured image of the one or more individuals lack facial motion data;
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- an avatar module, implemented as least partly in one or more of configurable logic or fixed-functionality logic hardware, to initiate an avatar animation based on the modified set of facial motion data,
- wherein frames located proximate to the frames lacking facial motion data are leveraged to compute replacement facial motion data for the frames lacking facial motion data.
At least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a set of instructions which, if executed by a client device, cause the client device to:
- detect a condition with respect to one or more frames of a video signal associated with a set of facial motion data related to an image capture of a face of one or more individuals;
- modify, in response to the condition, the set of facial motion data to indicate that the one or more frames of the video signal associated with the captured image of the one or more individuals lack facial motion data;
- and
- initiate an avatar animation based on the modified set of facial motion data,
- wherein frames located proximate to the frames lacking facial motion data are leveraged to compute replacement facial motion data for the frames lacking facial motion data.
A method to animate avatars, comprising:
- detecting, by a mobile communication device, a condition with respect to one or more frames of a video signal associated with a set of facial motion data related to an image capture of a face of one or more individuals;
- modifying, by the mobile communication device, and in response to the condition, the set of facial motion data to indicate that the one or more frames of the video signal associated with the captured image of the one or more individuals lack facial motion data;
- and
- initiating, by one or more of the mobile communication device and a remote server, an avatar animation based on the modified set of facial motion data,
- wherein frames located proximate to the frames lacking facial motion data are leveraged to compute replacement facial motion data for the frames lacking facial motion data.
At least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a set of instructions which, if executed by a server, cause the server to:
- receive a set of facial motion data related to an image capture of a face of one or more individuals, and associated with a video signal;
- detect an indication in the set of facial motion data that one or more frames of the video signal associated with the captured image of the one or more individuals lack facial motion data;
- generate replacement facial motion data for the one or more frames;
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- initiate an avatar animation based on the set of facial motion data and the replacement facial motion data,
- wherein frames located proximate to the frames lacking facial motion data are leveraged to compute the replacement facial motion data for the frames lacking facial motion data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.