US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on March 24 for "Techniques for generating dubbed media content items" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,280, issued on March 24, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gato, Calif.).

"Techniques for generating dubbed media content items" was invented by Chao Pan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yiwei Zhao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a dubbing application performs three-dimensional (3D) tracking of (1) the face of an actor within video frames of a first media content item to generate 3D geometry representing the face of the actor, and (2) the face of a dubber within video frames of a second media content item to generate 3D geometry representing the face of the dubber. The dubbing application also tracks ...