Facial Landmark Ideogram Generation for Personalized Avatars

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for generating ideograms in telecommunication applications do not utilize facial recognition or facial landmarks to create avatars or ideograms, and these ideograms are centrally generated without user interaction or customization, failing to reflect the user's image or provide stylized representations.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for generating ideograms on a client device that identifies facial landmarks from a user's image or video stream, allowing for the creation of personalized, stylized avatars or ideograms through image segmentation and facial recognition, enabling user interaction and customization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If ideograms are centrally generated by entities distributing applications or brands, then ideograms can be provided in set packages or individual downloads, but the ideograms fail to reflect the user's image or provide customized representations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomization capabilityVSAvoidgeneration system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables users to generate their own personalized ideograms through facial recognition and image processing on their devices, eliminating the need for centralized generation while providing customized representations that reflect the user's image

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system transforms generic ideograms into personalized versions by changing parameters such as facial features, expressions, and stylistic elements based on user-provided images and facial landmark data

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Manufacturing precision

If facial recognition and facial landmarks are used to generate avatars, then personalized and stylized representations can be created, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveavatar representation accuracyVSAvoidimage processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the face into distinct landmarks and features, processing each region separately to generate accurate stylized representations while managing computational complexity through modular processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Extent of automation

If ideograms are generated without user interaction, then the process is automated, but the ideograms cannot be customized to reflect the user's image

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegeneration automation levelVSAvoiduser customization capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Extent of automationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary automated facial recognition and landmark detection, then allows users to provide input images and customization preferences, combining automation with targeted user interaction for personalized results

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20260017859A1Avatar based ideogram generation
Publication Date: 2026.01.15 SNAP INC
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AI summary

Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for generating ideograms from a set of images received in an image stream. The systems and methods detect at least a portion of a face within the image and identify a set of facial landmarks within the portion of the face. The systems and methods determine one or more characteristics representing the portion of the face, in response to detecting the portion of the face. Based on the one or more characteristics and the set of facial landmarks, the systems and methods generate a representation of a face. The systems and methods position one or more graphical elements proximate to the graphical model of the face and generate an ideogram from the graphical model and the one or more graphical elements.