US Patent Issued to Digital Domain Virtual Human (US) on March 24 for "Methods and systems for markerless facial motion capture" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,285, issued on March 24, was assigned to Digital Domain Virtual Human (US) Inc..

"Methods and systems for markerless facial motion capture" was invented by Mark Douglas John Williams (Vancouver, Canada) and Lucio Dorneles Moser (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a training data set for an artificial intelligence engine operable to convert markerless digital images of a target face into a mapping. The method comprises training an intermediate artificial intelligence by providing markered digital images of one or more skin parts to the intermediate artificial intelligence engine as a source trainin...