US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 17 for "Face image generation with wrinkles" (British, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,324, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Face image generation with wrinkles" was invented by Tadas Baltrusaitis (Cambridge, Great Britain), Charles Thomas Hewitt (Cambridge, Great Britain), Erroll William Wood (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Chirag Anantha Raman (Delfgauw, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing an image depicting a face having an expression with wrinkles is described. A 3D polygon mesh model of a face has a non-neutral expression. A tension map is computed from the 3D polygon mesh model. A neutral texture, a compressed wrinkle texture and an expanded ...