US Patent Issued to Electronic Arts on July 29 for "Predicting facial expressions using character motion states" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,014, issued on July 29, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Predicting facial expressions using character motion states" was invented by Wolfram Sebastian Starke (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Igor Borovikov (Foster City, Calif.) and Harold Henry Chaput (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying one or more facial expression parameters associated with a pose of a character are disclosed. A system may execute a game development application to identify facial expression parameters for a particular pose of a character. The system may receive an input identifying the p...