US Patent Issued to ELECTRONIC ARTS on March 31 for "Generating expressive facial animation data from speech audio using speech emotion recognition" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,018, issued on March 31, was assigned to ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Generating expressive facial animation data from speech audio using speech emotion recognition" was invented by Monica Villanueva Aylagas (Sundbyberg, Sweden), Mattias Teye (Sundbyberg, Sweden), Hector Leon (Malmo, Sweden) and Damian Valle (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification provides a computer-implemented method for generating facial animation data. The facial animation data animates a face in a video game in accordance with speech sounds and speech emotion of speech audio. Speech audio data representing the speech audio ...