US Patent Issued to SNAP on March 4 for "Side-by-side character animation from realtime 3D body motion capture" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,173, issued on March 4, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Side-by-side character animation from realtime 3D body motion capture" was invented by Avihay Assouline (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itamar Berger (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Gal Dudovitch (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Matan Zohar (Rishon LeZion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving a video that depicts a person; tracking three-dimensional (3D) movement of the person within the video using a 3D...