US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises, ETH ZURICH (EIDGENOSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZURICH) on Aug. 12 for "Automated image augmentation using a virtual character" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,437, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.) and ETH ZURICH (EIDGENOSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZURICH) (Zurich).

"Automated image augmentation using a virtual character" was invented by Martin Guay (Zurich), Gokcen Cimen (Zurich), Christoph Maurhofer (Hinwil, Switzerland), Mattia Ryffel (Bern, Switzerland) and Robert W. Sumner (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing an image augmentation software code, a three-dimensional (3D) shapes library, and/or a 3D poses library. The image proce...