US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on Oct. 7 for "Dynamic transition from video to personalized photorealistic facial representations in digital communications" (Colorado, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,458, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Dynamic transition from video to personalized photorealistic facial representations in digital communications" was invented by Hany A. Heikal (Aurora, Colo.), Christopher Glen Turner (Aurora, Colo.) and Dell Lawrence Wolfensparger (Seaview, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video data that depicts a facial motion of a face of a particular user of a computing device is obtained. A determination is made that a network performance metric for a network connection is less than a threshold network performance metric. Responsive to the determination,...