US Patent Issued to Electronic Arts on Dec. 30 for "Automatic head pose neutralization and blend shape generation" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,809, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Automatic head pose neutralization and blend shape generation" was invented by Hau Nghiep Phan (Montreal) and Mathieu Marquis Bolduc (St-Laurent, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may perform head pose neutralization on an input mesh to produce a neutral mesh and/or determine blend shapes for the neutral mesh. The system may generate a neutral mesh based on an input mesh and a reference mesh and then generate a blend shape associated with the neutral mesh based at least in part on one or more reference neutral meshes and one or more cor...