	US 12,288,282 B2
	Method and apparatus for displaying facial expression in virtual scene
Lin Lin, Guangdong (CN); Haohui Liang, Guangdong (CN); Zixi Liu, Guangdong (CN); Bokai Su, Guangdong (CN); Shanshan Qian, Guangdong (CN); Yiqi Li, Guangdong (CN); Ya Zhang, Guangdong (CN); Yinchao Chen, Guangdong (CN); and Han Wen, Guangdong (CN)
Assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited, Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited, Guangdong (CN)
Filed on Oct. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/971,882.
Application 17/971,882 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2022/088267, filed on Apr. 21, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 202110580625.X (CN), filed on May 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0048502 A1, Feb. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. G06T 13/40 (2011.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01); G06F 3/04883 (2022.01); G06T 19/20 (2011.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01)

CPC G06T 13/40 (2013.01) [G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06T 19/20 (2013.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); G06T 2219/2004 (2013.01)]

19 Claims

1. A method for displaying an expression in a virtual scene, performed by a computer device, comprising:

displaying a virtual scene, an expression addition control being displayed in the virtual scene, the expression addition control being for designating a position in the virtual scene for displaying an expression selection region, the expression selection region comprising a plurality of first candidate expressions;

in response to a drag operation on the expression addition control in the virtual scene, determining a position in the virtual scene at which the drag operation ends as a first target position; and

displaying the expression selection region at the first target position in the virtual scene, wherein the expression selection region is refrained from being displayed during the drag operation; and

displaying, in response to a selection operation on a first target expression in the plurality of first candidate expressions, the first target expression in the virtual scene.