ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,293, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hyperconnect LLC (Dallas).

"Method and apparatus for generating reenacted image" was invented by Sang Il Ahn (Cheongju-si, South Korea), Seok Jun Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Hyoun Taek Yong (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Joo Ha (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Martin Kersner (Seoul, South Korea), Beom Su Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Dong Young Kim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a reenacted image includes: extracting a landmark from each of a driver image and a target image; generating a driver feature map based on pose information and expression information of a...