US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Oct. 21 for "System and method for generating emotionally-aware virtual facial expressions" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,806, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"System and method for generating emotionally-aware virtual facial expressions" was invented by Subham Biswas (Maharashtra, India) and Saurabh Tahiliani (Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating emotionally-aware digital content are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising obtaining audio input, obtaining a textual representation of the audio input; using the textual representation of the audio input to identify an emotion corresponding to the audio input; generating an emotionall...