ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,666, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to MAGIC LEAP INC. (Plantation, Fla.).
"Animating virtual avatar facial movements" was invented by Sean Michael Comer (Encino, Calif.) and Geoffrey Wedig (Torrance, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods generating an animation rig corresponding to a pose of a subject include accessing image data corresponding to the pose of the subject. The image data can include the face of the subject. The systems and methods process the image data by successively analyzing subregions of the image according to a solver order. The solver order can be biologically or anatomically ordered to pro...