US Patent Issued to DISH NETWORK on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for automatic avatar animation for video calls" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,873, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DISH NETWORK LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for automatic avatar animation for video calls" was invented by Caroline Condon (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An avatar animation system is provided herein. The avatar animation system receives first video data of a user that includes a depiction of a face of the user. The avatar animation system generates a model of the user based on the first video data. The avatar animation system receives an indication that the user is participating in a video conference call via a computing device and receives second video data of the user as...