US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 24 for "Hybrid approach to accurate user representation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,883, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Hybrid approach to accurate user representation" was invented by Olivier Soares (Oakland, Calif.), Yang Song (San Jose, Calif.), Graham L. Fyffe (Playa Vista, Calif.) and Gilles M. Cadet (Agoura Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rendering an avatar for a user in a communication session includes obtaining enrollment data associated with the user. For each of one or more frames of the communication session, a set of expression latents is obtained for the user. A first texture for a first portion of the face of the user is generated based on the enrollme...