US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on July 14 for "Audio-driven facial animation with adaptive speech rate" (Chinese, British, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,531, issued on July 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Audio-driven facial animation with adaptive speech rate" was invented by Zhengyu Huang (Shanghai), Dmitry Korobchenko (London), Junjie Lai (Beijing), Tao Li (Beijing), Yeongho Seol (Seoul, South Korea), Rui Zhang (Beijing), Weihua Zhang (Beijing) and Yingying Zhong (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a technique for audio-driven facial animation with adaptive speech includes determining that a rate of speech associated with an audio segment exceeds a threshold. The technique also includes based at least on the rate of speech exceedi...