Avatar creation and editing

• US 10,362,219 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2017
• Issued: 07/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Wilson, Christopher, Barlier, Guillaume, Bauer, Sebastian, Cranfill, Elizabeth Caroline, Guzman, Aurelio, Jon, Tiffany S., Manzari, Behkish J., Ryan, Nicole R., Scapel, Nicolas, Triverio, Marco, Van Os, Marcel, Yerkes, Giancarlo
• Primary Examiner(s): Kelley, Christopher S
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tarko, Asmamaw G
• Application Number:
  US15/713,490
• Publication Number:
  US 20180091732A1
• Time in Patent Office: 669 Days
• Field of Search: 348158
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/40 of characters, e.g. humans, animals or virtual beings
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/20 Editing of 3D images, e.g. changing shapes or colours, aligning objects or positioning parts
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30196 Human being; Person
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30244 Camera pose
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/20 Analysis of motion motion estimation for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/43, H04N19/51
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/70 Determining position or orientation of objects or cameras camera calibration G06T7/80
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/168 Feature extraction; Face representation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/611 where the recognised objects include parts of the human body
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/64 Computer-aided capture of images, e.g. transfer from script file into camera, check of taken image quality, advice or proposal for image composition or decision on when to take image

Abstract

The present disclosure generally relates to creating and editing user avatars. In some examples, guidance is provided to a user while capturing image data for use in generating a user-specific avatar. In some examples, a user interface allows a user to intuitively customize a user avatar. In some examples, avatars are generated for a messaging session based on an avatar model for a user of the messaging application. In some examples, an avatar editing interface updates a user avatar in response to gestures and based on the type of gesture and the avatar feature that is selected for editing.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a display;

one or more processors;

one or more input devices;

a memory; and

one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

displaying a messaging interface for a messaging application for transmitting messages between a first user of the device and other users, wherein the first user is represented in the messaging application by an avatar of the user that distinguishes the first user of the device from other users;

while displaying the messaging interface, receiving a first request to display a sticker user interface for selecting stickers to send to a second user;

in response to the first request to display the sticker user interface, displaying a sticker user interface that includes a first plurality of avatar stickers generated based on the avatar of the user, including concurrently displaying, on the display;

a first avatar sticker generated based on a modification of the avatar that represents the user, and

a second avatar sticker generated based on a modification of the avatar that represents the user and is different from the first avatar sticker;

while displaying a plurality of affordances for the avatar selection interface on the display, detecting, via the one or more input devices, a sequence of one or more inputs that corresponds to a request to send a respective avatar sticker from the first user to the second user via the messaging application; and

in response to detecting the sequence of one or more inputs;

in accordance with a determination that the sequence of one or more inputs corresponds to selection of the first avatar sticker, sending the first avatar sticker to the second user from the first user to the second user via the messaging application; and

in accordance with a determination that the sequence of one or more inputs corresponds to selection of the second avatar sticker, sending the second avatar sticker from the first user to the second user via the messaging application.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the avatar of the user is based on an avatar recipe.

3. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the first avatar sticker was generated by modifying a first parameter of the avatar recipe for the avatar of the user.

4. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the second avatar sticker was generated by adding a second parameter to the avatar recipe for the avatar of the user.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein sending the first avatar sticker to the second user includes sending a recipe representing the first avatar sticker to the user.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein sending the first avatar sticker to the second user from the first user to the second user via the messaging application comprises:

in accordance with a determination that a device associated with the second user supports avatar recipes, sending the first avatar sticker to the second user includes sending a recipe representing the first avatar sticker to the user; and

in accordance with a determination that the device associated with the second user does not support avatar recipes, sending a graphical representation of the first avatar sticker to the user.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the sticker user interface is displayed concurrently with at least a portion of the messaging interface.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first avatar sticker is animated.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the second avatar sticker includes a prop.

10. The electronic device of claim 1, the one or more programs further including instruction for:

prior to receiving the request to display the sticker user interface, receiving user input for a textual portion of a user message; and

sending the textual portion of the user message to the second user via the messaging application after detecting the sequence of one or more inputs.

11. The electronic device of claim 1, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

after sending the first avatar sticker or the second avatar sticker, while displaying the plurality of affordances for the avatar selection interface on the display, detecting, via the one or more input devices, a second sequence of one or more inputs that corresponds to a request to send a respective avatar sticker from the first user to the second user via the messaging application; and

in response to detecting the second sequence of one or more inputs, in accordance with a determination that the second sequence of one or more inputs corresponds to selection of the second avatar sticker, sending the second avatar sticker from the first user to the second user via the messaging application.

12. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of an electronic device with a display and one or more input devices, cause the electronic device to:

display a messaging interface for a messaging application for transmitting messages between a first user of the device and other users, wherein the first user is represented in the messaging application by an avatar of the user that distinguishes the first user of the device from other users;

while displaying the messaging interface, receive a first request to display a sticker user interface for selecting stickers to send to a second user;

in response to the first request to display the sticker user interface, display a sticker user interface that includes a first plurality of avatar stickers generated based on the avatar of the user, including concurrently displaying, on the display;

a first avatar sticker generated based on a modification of the avatar that represents the user, and

a second avatar sticker generated based on a modification of the avatar that represents the user and is different from the first avatar sticker;

while displaying a plurality of affordances for the avatar selection interface on the display, detect, via the one or more input devices, a sequence of one or more inputs that corresponds to a request to send a respective avatar sticker from the first user to the second user via the messaging application; and

in response to detecting the sequence of one or more inputs;

in accordance with a determination that the sequence of one or more inputs corresponds to selection of the first avatar sticker, send the first avatar sticker to the second user from the first user to the second user via the messaging application; and

in accordance with a determination that the sequence of one or more inputs corresponds to selection of the second avatar sticker, send the second avatar sticker from the first user to the second user via the messaging application.

13. A method comprising:

at an electronic device having a display and one or more input devices;

displaying a messaging interface for a messaging application for transmitting messages between a first user of the device and other users, wherein the first user is represented in the messaging application by an avatar of the user that distinguishes the first user of the device from other users;

while displaying the messaging interface, receiving a first request to display a sticker user interface for selecting stickers to send to a second user;

in response to the first request to display the sticker user interface, displaying a sticker user interface that includes a first plurality of avatar stickers generated based on the avatar of the user, including concurrently displaying, on the display;

a first avatar sticker generated based on a modification of the avatar that represents the user, and

a second avatar sticker generated based on a modification of the avatar that represents the user and is different from the first avatar sticker;

while displaying a plurality of affordances for the avatar selection interface on the display, detecting, via the one or more input devices, a sequence of one or more inputs that corresponds to a request to send a respective avatar sticker from the first user to the second user via the messaging application; and

in response to detecting the sequence of one or more inputs;

in accordance with a determination that the sequence of one or more inputs corresponds to selection of the first avatar sticker, sending the first avatar sticker to the second user from the first user to the second user via the messaging application; and

in accordance with a determination that the sequence of one or more inputs corresponds to selection of the second avatar sticker, sending the second avatar sticker from the first user to the second user via the messaging application.