US Patent Issued to Electronic Arts on Oct. 14 for "Neural animation layering for synthesizing movement" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,115, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Electronic Arts Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Neural animation layering for synthesizing movement" was invented by Wolfram Sebastian Starke (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Yiwei Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mohsen Sardari (Redwood City, Calif.), Harold Henry Chaput (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Navid Aghdaie (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, the dynamic animation generation system can provide a deep learning framework to produce a large variety of martial arts movements in a controllable manner from unstructured motion capture data. The system can imitate animation la...