US Patent Issued to Beijing Zitiao Network Technology on April 8 for "Method and apparatus for adding animation to video, and device and medium" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,989, issued on April 8, was assigned to Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for adding animation to video, and device and medium" was invented by Zhiwei Deng (Beijing), Longyin Wen (Los Angeles) and Kai Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adding animation to a video includes: detecting whether the hand of a user in the current video frame, which is currently captured, holds an object; if so, determining a target animation corresponding to the object; and determining an animation addition area, which corresponds to the target animation, on the current video frame, and adding ...