US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Nov. 18 for "Video conferencing based on adaptive face re-enactment and face restoration" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,129, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Video conferencing based on adaptive face re-enactment and face restoration" was invented by Wei Jiang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Wei Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for adaptive decoding of compressed video for video conferencing may be provided. The method may include receiving compressed video data comprising a plurality of video frames, and determining, a selection signal indicating whether at least one of a face restoration technique and a face reenactment technique is to be us...