ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,914, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"External mesh with vertex attributes" was invented by Matan Zohar (Rishon LeZion, Israel), Artem Bondich (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Yanli Zhao (London) and Brian Fulkerson (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations for deforming an external mesh. The operations comprise receiving a video that includes a depiction of a real-world object. The operations comprise generating a three-dimensional (3D) body mesh associated with the real-world object that tracks movement of the real-world object across frames of t...