ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,457, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to UIF (University Industry Foundation, Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for generating dancing avatar" was invented by Sang Hoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for generating a dancing avatar, that receives a latent code and map it using a neural network operation to obtain a plurality of genre-specific style codes for each of a plurality of dance genres, and decodes seed motion data and music data, which are motion data that must be referred to when generating an avatar's dance motion, usin...