US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 12 for "Puppeteering a remote avatar by facial expressions" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,411, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Puppeteering a remote avatar by facial expressions" was invented by Tarek Hefny (Redmond, Wash.), Nicholas Reiter (Mountain View, Calif.), Brandon Young (Mountain View, Calif.), Arun Kandoor (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Dillon Cower (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a first facial framework and a first captured image of a face. The first facial framework corresponds to the face at a first frame and includes a first facial mesh of facial information. The method also includes projecting the first captured image onto...