ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,793, issued on May 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Automated dance animation" was invented by Gurunandan Krishnan Gorumkonda (Kirkland, Wash.) and Shree K. Nayar (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, media, and other embodiments are described for generating, modifying, and outputting pseudorandom animations that can be synchronized to audio data. In one embodiment, a computer animation model made up of comprising one or more control points is accessed by one or more processors, which associate motion patterns with a first control point of the one or more control points, and associate one or...