US Patent Issued to Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute on Jan. 27 for "Method and apparatus for virtual avatar generation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,739, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Method and apparatus for virtual avatar generation" was invented by Zhuoxuan Li (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Jingyi Xu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Yi Li (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Hon Wah Wong (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Yanchen Wang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Man Choi Chan (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for virtual avatar generation is provided, including a face encoder, a face fusion engine, a voice encoder, and a voice fusion engine. The face encoder extracts first facial features...