ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,819, issued on June 23.

"Joint expression coding system and method based on static and dynamic expression images" was invented by Mi Li (Beijing City, China), Yanbo Chen (Beijing City, China), Jianhui Chen (Beijing City, China) and Shengfu Lv (Beijing City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joint expression coding system based on static and dynamic expression images is disclosed, including an image preprocessing module, a dynamic expression image generation module, a dynamic weight image generation module, and a joint expression coding image generation module. A joint expression coding method based on the joint expression coding...