System and method of customizing animated entities for use in a multi-media communication application
First Claim
1. A method for creating a personal animated entity for delivering a multi-media email message from a sender to a recipient, the method comprising:
- receiving from the sender a personal image file at a server, the image file including an image of an entity;
via a dialog between the server and the sender, requesting the sender to provide input with respect to a plurality of facial features of the image of the entity in preparation for animating the image of the entity, wherein the dialog includes, after the sender has input a predetermined number of facial features, presenting the sender with an option to continue to mark facial features;
after the sender provides the input with respect to the plurality of facial features of the image of the entity, presenting the image of the entity as a personal animated entity to the sender to preview; and
upon approval of the preview from the sender, as the sender later begins a process of preparing a multi-media email message to send to the recipient, presenting the image of the entity as a sender-selectable personal animated entity for delivering the multi-media email message to the recipient.
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Abstract
In an embodiment, a method is provided for creating a personal animated entity for delivering a multi-media message from a sender to a recipient. An image file from the sender may be received by a server. The image file may include an image of an entity. The sender may be requested to provide input with respect to facial features of the image of the entity in preparation for animating the image of the entity. After the sender provides the input with respect to the facial features of the image of the entity, the image of the entity may be presented as a personal animated entity to the sender to preview. Upon approval of the preview from the sender, the image of the entity may be presented as a sender-selectable personal animated entity for delivering the multi-media message to the recipient.
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13 Claims
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1. A method for creating a personal animated entity for delivering a multi-media email message from a sender to a recipient, the method comprising:
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receiving from the sender a personal image file at a server, the image file including an image of an entity; via a dialog between the server and the sender, requesting the sender to provide input with respect to a plurality of facial features of the image of the entity in preparation for animating the image of the entity, wherein the dialog includes, after the sender has input a predetermined number of facial features, presenting the sender with an option to continue to mark facial features; after the sender provides the input with respect to the plurality of facial features of the image of the entity, presenting the image of the entity as a personal animated entity to the sender to preview; and upon approval of the preview from the sender, as the sender later begins a process of preparing a multi-media email message to send to the recipient, presenting the image of the entity as a sender-selectable personal animated entity for delivering the multi-media email message to the recipient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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