ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,968, issued on June 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Orienting digital humans towards isolated speaker" was invented by Michael David Shepherd (Leander, Texas), Jonathan M. Whitson (Mountain Grove, Mo.) and Joseph Michael Whitson (Mansfield, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for orienting a digital human towards an isolated human speaker. One method comprises obtaining coordinates associated with a human speaker; storing the coordinates as a variable in a memory of a multi-dimensional graphics engine; instantiating a multi-dimensional plane within the multi-dimensional graphics engin...