Huawei
- Chinese name
- 华为
- Pinyin
- Registered name
- 华为技术有限公司
- Unified Social Credit Code
914403001922038216registered in Guangdong 广东- U.S. restrictions
Huawei (华为技术有限公司) is Huawei’s principal operating company, headquartered in Shenzhen and a subsidiary of Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.
Its own digital-human work is in patents on virtual avatars. It holds a granted patent on generating a virtual avatar from a user’s images, has filed with Tsinghua University on generating 3D virtual avatars that follow the facial features of an input image, and has filed on generating stylised virtual avatars (CN119068157A) and on presenting virtual robot images on electronic devices (CN118605978A). It has filed some thirty patents with digital human (数字人) in their titles, among them CN122073630A, published in May 2026, on displaying a digital human whose limb movements follow the animation of on-screen components.
Huawei’s cloud digital-human platform MetaStudio, and the digital-human algorithms filed for it, belong to its wholly owned subsidiary Huawei Cloud (华为云计算技术有限公司). The HMS Core sign-language digital-human service, SignPal, is provided by Huawei Software Technologies (华为软件技术有限公司).