ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,552, issued on March 4, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Wearable speech input-based to moving lips display overlay" was invented by Kathleen Worthington McMahon (Berryville, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Eyewear having a speech to moving lips algorithm that receives and translates speech and utterances of a person viewed through the eyewear, and then displays an overlay of moving lips corresponding to the speech and utterances on a mask of the viewed person. A database having text to moving lips information is utilized to translate the speech and generate the moving lips in near-real time with little latency. ...