ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,460, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Photorealistic talking faces from audio" was invented by Vivek Kwatra (Saratoga, Calif.), Christian Frueh (Mountain View, Calif.), Avisek Lahiri (West Bengal, India) and John Lewis (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a framework for generating photorealistic 3D talking faces conditioned only on audio input. In addition, the present disclosure provides associated methods to insert generated faces into existing videos or virtual environments. We decompose faces from video into a normalized space that decouples 3D geometry, head pose...