US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 2 for "3D digital avatar generation from a single or few portrait images" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,422, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"3D digital avatar generation from a single or few portrait images" was invented by Koki Nagano (Playa Vista, Calif.) and Jaewoo Seo (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for generating a digital avatar from a two-dimensional input image in accordance with a machine learning models is provided. The machine learning models are generative adversarial networks trained to process a latent code into three-dimensional data and color data. A generative adversarial network (GAN) inversion optimization algorithm is run on the first machin...