ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,279, issued on March 24, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Animation compositor for digital avatars" was invented by Pascal Joel Berard (Zurich, Switzerland), Christian Eduard Schuller (Frauenfeld, Switzerland) and Riccardo Roveri (Zug, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and techniques for rendering digital avatar animations. The techniques include receiving a user input associated with an interaction of a user with a digital avatar, identifying, based at least on the user input, a state of the interaction, and obtaining, based at least on the state, one or more animations and one or ...