US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 15 for "Online modeling for real-time facial animation" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,957, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Online modeling for real-time facial animation" was invented by Sofien Bouaziz (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Mark Pauly (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a method for real-time facial animation, and a processing device for real-time facial animation. The method includes providing a dynamic expression model, receiving tracking data corresponding to a facial expression of a user, estimating tracking parameters based on the dynamic expression model and the tracking data, and refining the dynamic expression model based on th...