US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on April 8 for "Rapid generation of 3D heads with natural language" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,001, issued on April 8, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Rapid generation of 3D heads with natural language" was invented by Joseph Logan Olson (San Mateo, Calif.), Mager Kamel Aquino (Montreal) and Jade Raymond (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Two dimensional images are converted to a 3D neural radiance field (NeRF), which is modified based on text input to resemble the type of character demanded by the text. An open-source "CLIP" model scores how well an image matches a line of text to produce a final 3D NeRF, which may be converted to a polygonal mesh and imported into a computer sim...