US Patent Issued to Snap on May 6 for "Music reactive animation of human characters" (Washington, Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,444, issued on May 6, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Music reactive animation of human characters" was invented by Gurunandan Krishnan Gorumkonda (Kirkland, Wash.), Hsin-Ying Lee (San Jose, Calif.) and Jie Xu (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods for generating an animated character in dance poses to music may include generating, by at least one processor, a music input signal based on an acoustic signal associated with the music, and receiving, by the at least one processor, a model output signal from an encoding neural network. A current generated pose data is generated using a decodin...