ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,604, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Video game animation engine" was invented by Haider Shah (Brampton, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are technologies relating to insertion of audio cues for a sound into animations of video games. A video game animation engine obtains feature values corresponding to an animation at a timestep and provides the feature values to a computer-implemented model. The computer-implemented model computes a confidence score for the timestep, where the confidence score is indicative of a likelihood that an audio cue for the sound...