US Patent Issued to Adobe on Jan. 13 for "Generating three-dimensional looping animations from still images" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,944, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating three-dimensional looping animations from still images" was invented by Jae Shin Yoon (San Jose, Calif.), Duygu Ceylan Aksit (Mountain View, Calif.), Yangtuanfeng Wang (London), Jingwan Lu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jimei Yang (Merced, Calif.), Zhixin Shu (San Jose, Calif.), Chengan He (New Haven, Conn.), Yi Zhou (Los Angeles), Jun Saito (Seattle) and James Zachary (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that utilizes neural networks to generate looping animations from still images. The system fits a 3D model to a pose of a person in a digit...