US Patent Issued to JALI on Feb. 24 for "System and method of modulating animation curves" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,881, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to JALI INC. (Toronto).

"System and method of modulating animation curves" was invented by Yifang Pan (North York, Canada), Karan Singh (Toronto), Eugene Fiume (Burnaby, Canada) and Chris Landreth (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of modulating animation curves based on audio input. The method including: identifying phonetic features for a plurality of visemes in the audio input; determining viseme animation curves based on parameters representing a spatial appearance of the plurality of visemes; modulating the viseme animation curves based on melodic accent, pitch sensit...