US Patent Issued to Electronic Arts on July 22 for "Skin microstructure texture filtering for runtime facial animations" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,635, issued on July 22, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Skin microstructure texture filtering for runtime facial animations" was invented by Chris Lewin (Guildford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of skin microstructure texture filtering for facial animation includes obtaining a plurality of one-dimensional (1D) filtered tiles corresponding to a plurality of filter axis angles and a plurality of filter parameters applied to a neutral tile, and at runtime, for each pixel representing a region of human skin, determining a principal direction of deformation, a principal filter paramete...