ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,829, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for generating animations for 3D objects using machine learning" was invented by Crystal Fong (Belmont, Calif.), Nicholas Wasilewski (San Bruno, Calif.) and Douglas Sim Dietrich Jr. (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes identifying a first three-dimensional (3D) object comprising a first animation rig covering a first set of features associated with the first 3D object. An indication of the first 3D object is provided as input to a machine-learning model. The machine-learning model is trained to generate, usi...