ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,202, issued on July 8, was assigned to Deep Media Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Generative adversarial networks" was invented by Rijul Gupta (Oakland, Calif.) and Emma Brown (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio-driven lip reanimation GAN network and method of reanimating lips based on an input audio using a GAN network. The GAN network includes a 1st stage GAN generator configured to receive 1st stage audio inputs and 1st stage input frames. The 1st stage GAN generator is trained to produce 1st stage synthetic output frames in which a pair of lips in a target face in the 1st stage synthetic output frames has been reanima...