ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,746, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Alibaba Damo (Hangzhou) Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).
"Method and apparatus for talking face video compression" was invented by Bolin Chen (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Zhao Wang (Beijing), Yan Ye (San Diego) and Shiqi Wang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are provided for processing video data. An exemplary method includes: decompressing a compressed frame to generate a key frame representing a face; generating, for the key frame, a first set of parameters associated with a 3-dimensional (3D) face representation of the face; reconstructing, for ea...