US Patent Issued to Flawless Holdings on Sept. 8 for "Generating facial representations" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,319, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Flawless Holdings Ltd. (London).

"Generating facial representations" was invented by Gaurav Bharaj (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Qingju Liu (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating facial representations using a machine learned model is provided. A text encoder generates a representation of an input text segment. An aligner determines a time alignment between the input text segment and an input audio signal. A decoder generates a facial representation based at least in part on the representation of the input text segment, the time alignment, and on target style data, the targe...