ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,184, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).
"Method and apparatus for face video compression" was invented by Bolin Chen (Beijing), Zhao Wang (Beijing), Yan Ye (San Diego) and Shiqi Wang (Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding a video sequence into a bitstream includes receiving a video sequence; encoding one or more pictures of the video sequence; and generating a bitstream. The encoding includes compressing a reference picture; transforming, based on the reference picture, a plurality of inter pictures associated with the reference picture into facial sema...