US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Simulated control for 3-dimensional human poses in virtual reality environments" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,188, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Simulated control for 3-dimensional human poses in virtual reality environments" was invented by Jason Saragih (Pittsburgh), Shih-En Wei (Pittsburgh), Tomas Simon Kreuz (Pittsburgh), Kris Makoto Kitani (Pittsburgh) and Ye Yuan (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for simulating a solid body animation of a subject includes retrieving a first frame that includes a body image of a subject. The method also includes selecting, from the first frame, multiple key points within the body image of the subject that define a hull of a bo...