ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,564, issued on May 20, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Applying animated 3D avatar in AR experiences" was invented by Avihay Assouline (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itamar Berger (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Riza Alp Guler (London), Antonios Kakolyris (London), Frank Lu (London), Haoyang Wang (London) 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 for providing virtual experiences. The system accesses, by a messaging application, an image depicting a person. The system generates, by the messaging application, a three-dimensional (3D) avatar based on the per...