ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,196, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Augmented expression system" was invented by Chen Cao (Los Angeles), Yang Gao (Toronto) and Zehao Xue (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to an augmented expression system to generate and cause display of a specially configured interface to present an augmented reality perspective. The augmented expression system receives image and video data of a user and tracks facial landmarks of the user based on the image and video data, in real-time to generate and present a 3-dimensional (3D) bitmoji of the user."
The patent ...