ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,304, issued on July 8, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Pose empowered RGB-flow net" was invented by Yinxiao Li (Mountain View, Calif.), Zhichao Lu (Mountain View, Calif.), Xuehan Xiong (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jonathan Huang (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving video data that includes a series of frames of image data. Here, the video data is representative of an actor performing an activity. The method also includes processing the video data to generate a spatial input stream including a series of spatial images representative of spatial features of the actor performin...