US Patent Issued to Adobe on Oct. 7 for "Controllable dynamic appearance for neural 3D portraits" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,492, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Controllable dynamic appearance for neural 3D portraits" was invented by Zhixin Shu (San Jose, Calif.), Zexiang Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Shahrukh Athar (Stony Brook, N.Y.), Sai Bi (San Jose, Calif.), Kalyan Sunkavalli (Saratoga, Calif.) and Fujun Luan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects and features of this disclosure relate to providing a controllable, dynamic appearance for neural 3D portraits. For example, a method involves projecting a color at points in a digital video portrait based on location, surface normal, and viewing direction...