ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,008, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for motion-controlled animation" was invented by Shan Huang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods can enable the control the motion of an animated character based on imagery (e.g., captured by an image capture device such as a web camera or "webcam") which shows a person in motion. Specifically, the animated character can be automatically rendered to have the same motion as the entity shown in the imagery (e.g., in real time). According to one aspect of the present disclosure, the animated character can be rendered by...