US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 27 for "Avatar facial expressions based on semantical context" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,057, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Avatar facial expressions based on semantical context" was invented by Scott Beith (Carlsbad, Calif.), Suzana Arellano (San Diego), Michel Adib Sarkis (San Diego), Matthew Fischler (San Diego), Ke-Li Cheng (San Diego) and Stephane Villette (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a memory and one or more processors configured to process sensor data to determine a semantical context associated with the sensor data. The one or more processors are also configured to generate adjusted face data based on the determined semantical context and face data. T...