US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises on Oct. 21 for "Method and system for deep learning based face swapping with multiple encoders" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,385, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Method and system for deep learning based face swapping with multiple encoders" was invented by Jacek Krzysztof Naruniec (Zurich, Switzerland), Romann Matthew Weber (Zurich, Switzerland) and Christopher Richard Schroers (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of changing a face within an output image or video frame includes: receiving an input image that includes a face presenting a facial expression in a pose; separately encoding different portions of the image by, for each separately encoded portion, generat...