US Patent Issued to Roblox on Aug. 25 for "Extraction of human poses from video data for animation of computer models" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,620, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Roblox Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Extraction of human poses from video data for animation of computer models" was invented by Alexander B. Weiss (Pleasanton, Calif.), Timothy Paul Omernick (San Diego) and Tinghui Zhou (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Extraction of human poses from video data for animation of computer models. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes determining a first pose sequence of a human body model based on frames of an input video, the frames depicting movement of a person. The first pose sequence includes poses of the human bo...