US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 22 for "Neural head avatar construction from an image" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,841, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Neural head avatar construction from an image" was invented by Xueting Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shalini De Mello (San Francisco), Sifei Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Koki Nagano (Playa Vista, Calif.), Umar Iqbal (San Jose, Calif.) and Jan Kautz (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed that animate a source portrait image with motion (i.e., pose and expression) from a target image. In contrast to conventional systems, given an unseen single-view portrait image, an implicit three-dimensional (3D) head avatar is construct...