ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,474, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"View dependent 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), Ajit Deepak Gupte (Bangalore, India) and Ning Bi (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for generating a three-dimensional (3D) facial model. For example, a process can include obtaining at least one input image associated with a face. In some as...