US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Nov. 3 for "Speech driven animation" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,316, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Speech driven animation" was invented by Yuhui Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Gengdai Liu (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of an apparatus, method(s), system(s) and computer program product(s) described herein are directed to a Vocal Action Engine. The Vocal Action Engine receives audio data (i.e. input audio data) associated with a user account. The Vocal Action Engine predicts at least one occurrence of a type of a vocal action in the audio data from a plurality of varying types of the same vocal action. The Vocal Action En...