US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Aug. 4 for "3D digital virtual character generation with facial feature preservation" (Singaporean, Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,161, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"3D digital virtual character generation with facial feature preservation" was invented by Wenyu Chen (Singapore), Chichen Fu (San Jose, Calif.), Zhongyuan Hu (Singapore), Qiang Li (Hangzhou, China), Wenchong Lin (Hangzhou, China), Bo Ling (Saratoga, Calif.) and Gengdai Liu (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating virtual characters for video conferencing are provided. In an example, a computing device accesses a source human face model, a target human face model, and a source virtual character face model as well as ...