US Patent Issued to Roblox on May 19 for "Camera mapping in a virtual experience" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,025, issued on May 19, was assigned to Roblox Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Camera mapping in a virtual experience" was invented by David B. Baszucki (Portola Valley, Calif.), Hendri Tan (San Mateo, Calif.), Philippe Clavel (Belmont, Calif.) and Garima Sinha (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metaverse application receives a first frame of a video. The metaverse application determines facial landmarks of the user in the first frame. The metaverse application generates an animation frame that includes an avatar and a background based on the facial landmarks and the first frame. The metaverse application determines a head...