ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,283, issued on March 24, was assigned to INNOPEAK TECHNOLOGY INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Real-time hand-held markerless human motion recording and avatar rendering in a mobile platform" was invented by Zhong Li (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shuxue Quan (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yi Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system obtains an image of a scene captured by a camera and identifies a two-dimensional (2D) pose of the person in the image. The 2D pose includes a plurality of 2D joint positions in the image. The 2D pose is converted to a three-dimensional (3D) pose of the person including a plurality of 3D joint posi...