ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,020, issued on June 3, was assigned to Goodsize Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"System apparatus and method for providing facial expression to avatars" was invented by Sergei Sherman (Givatayim, Israel) and Dmitrii Ulianov (Ramat Gan, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing a facial expression to a virtual avatar. The system includes a training system to train a neural network system to replace a face of the virtual avatar with a source face and to provide a facial expression of the source face to the face of the avatar in a real-time and an inference system configured to use the trained neural network system...