US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on June 17 for "Synthetic audio-driven body animation using voice tempo" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,639, issued on June 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Synthetic audio-driven body animation using voice tempo" was invented by Evgeny Aleksandrovich Tumanov (Moscow), Dmitry Aleksandrovich Korobchenko (Moscow), Simon Yuen (Playa Vista, Calif.) and Kevin Margo (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, animations may be generated using audio-driven body animation synthesized with voice tempo. For example, full body animation may be driven from an audio input representative of recorded speech, where voice tempo (e.g., a number of phonemes per unit time) may be used to generate a 1D aud...