ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,566, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to KLLEON INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for synthesizing background and face by considering face shape and using deep learning network" was invented by Ji-Su Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Tae-Min Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for synthesizing a background and a face by considering a face shape and using a deep learning network are proposed. The method and the device are characterized to receive an input of an original image and a converted face image, remove a central part from the original image, remove edges so that a central part...