US Patent Issued to Lemon on Sept. 9 for "Voice generation for virtual characters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,559, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Voice generation for virtual characters" was invented by Zeng Dai (Los Angeles), Chen Sun (Los Angeles), Ari Shapiro (Los Angeles), Kin Chung Wong (Los Angeles), Weishan Yu (Culver City, Calif.) and August Yadon (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes techniques of generating voices for virtual characters. A plurality of source sounds may be received. The plurality of source sounds may correspond to a plurality of frames of a video. The video may comprise a virtual character. The plurality of source sounds may be ...