US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 25 for "Virtual avatar animation based on facial feature movement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,161, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Virtual avatar animation based on facial feature movement" was invented by Nicolas Scapel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Guillaume Pierre Andre Barlier (San Mateo, Calif.), Aurelio Guzman (San Jose, Calif.) and Jason Rickwald (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to displaying visual effects such as virtual avatars. An electronic device having a camera and a display apparatus displays a virtual avatar that changes appearance in response to changes in a face in a field of view of the camera. In response to detecting cha...