US Patent Issued to Unity IPR on March 18 for "System and method for generating character poses using deep learning" (Canadian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,550, issued on March 18, was assigned to Unity IPR ApS (Copenhagen, Denmark).

"System and method for generating character poses using deep learning" was invented by Florent Benjamin Bocquelet (La Motte-Servolex, France), Dominic Laflamme (Hudson, Canada) and Boris Oreshkin (Mont-Royal, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating or modifying poses in an animation of a character are disclosed. Variable numbers and types of supplied inputs are combined into a single input. The variable numbers and types of supplied inputs correspond to one or more effector constraints for one or more joints of the character. The singl...