US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises, ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) on July 22 for "Generating a facial-hair-free mesh of a subject" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,649, issued on July 22, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.) and ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Generating a facial-hair-free mesh of a subject" was invented by Sebastian Winberg (Zurich, Switzerland), Prashanth Chandran (Zurich, Switzerland), Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo (Zurich, Switzerland), Gaspard Zoss (Zurich, Switzerland) and Derek Edward Bradley (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for generating three-dimensional (3D) models and facial hair models representative of subjects (e.g., actors or actresses) using facial scannin...