US Patent Issued to Roblox on Aug. 5 for "Robust facial animation from video using neural networks" (American, Swiss, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,622, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Roblox Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Robust facial animation from video using neural networks" was invented by Inaki Navarro (Zurich), Dario Kneubuhler (Zurich), Tijmen Verhulsdonck (Gothenburg, Sweden), Eloi Du Bois (Austin, Texas), Will Welch (San Francisco), Vivek Verma (Oakland, Calif.), Ian Sachs (Corte Madera, Calif.) and Kiran Bhat (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to generate animations for a 3D avatar from input video captured at a client device. A camera may capture video of a face while a...