US Patent Issued to COLOPL on March 11 for "Switching character facial expression associated with speech" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,256, issued on March 11, was assigned to COLOPL INC. (Tokyo).

"Switching character facial expression associated with speech" was invented by Junya Fukushige (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is to, on a basis of data including information capable of specifying a motion input by a performer who plays a character arranged in a virtual space and a speech of the performer, produce a behavior of the character, to enable the character viewed from a predetermined point of view in the virtual space to display on a predetermined display unit, and to enable a sound depending on the speech of the performer to output. ...