US Patent Issued to Snap on June 23 for "Generating text-to-motion animations from partially annotated datasets" (New York, Iowa, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,713, issued on June 23, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Generating text-to-motion animations from partially annotated datasets" was invented by Karl Bayer (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Gurunandan Krishnan Gorumkonda (Kirkland, Wash.), Mingdian Liu (Ames, Iowa) and Bing Zhou (Rye, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-stage approach for learning and generating an expressive text-to-motion animation from partially annotated datasets (T2M-X). In an example implementation, T2M-X builds a unified motion dataset based on partially annotated datasets. In the first stage, T2M-X uses the unified motion dataset to train three vector...