US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 1 for "Facial texture synthesis for three-dimensional morphable models" (Taiwanese, Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,032, issued on July 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Facial texture synthesis for three-dimensional morphable models" was invented by Ke-Li Cheng (San Diego), Anupama S (Chennai, India), Kuang-Man Huang (Zhubei, Taiwan), Chieh-Ming Kuo (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Avani Rao (Bangalore, India), Chiranjib Choudhuri (Bangalore, India), Michel Adib Sarkis (San Diego), Ning Bi (San Diego) and Ajit Deepak Gupte (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for generating a texture for a three-dimensional (3D) facial model. For example, a process can include obtaining a first frame, the first frame ...