ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,965, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).

"Generation of three-dimensional (3D) blend-shapes from 3D scans using neural network" was invented by Kohei Miyamoto (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device and a method for generation of three-dimensional (3D) blend-shapes from 3D scans using neural network are disclosed. The electronic device acquires a set of 3D scans including a body portion of an object. The electronic device determines a set of segments of the body portion from each 3D scan. The electronic device applies a neural network mo...