US Patent Issued to 42dot on April 7 for "Face image generation method and device for generating fully-controllable talking face" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,191, issued on April 7, was assigned to 42dot Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Face image generation method and device for generating fully-controllable talking face" was invented by Byeong Yeol Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Ji Hwan Park (Seoul, South Korea) and You Shin Lim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are face image generation method and device for generating a controllable talking face image. The method includes: a face image generation method for generating a controllable talking face image, the method comprising: receiving a source image and a series of driving images, sampled from the same video, and i...