US Patent Issued to Adobe on July 15 for "Identity preserved controllable facial image manipulation" (California, Washington, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,601, issued on July 15, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Identity preserved controllable facial image manipulation" was invented by Zhixin Shu (San Jose, Calif.), Zhe Lin (Clyde Hill, Wash.), Yuchen Liu (Princeton, N.J.), Yijun Li (Seattle) and Richard Zhang (San Franciso, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for identity preserved controllable facial image manipulation are described that support generation of a manipulated digital image based on a facial image and a render image. For instance, a facial image depicting a facial representation of an individual is received as input. A feature space including ...