ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,670, issued on April 15, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Image processing method and apparatus" was invented by Junyong Noh (Daejeon, South Korea), Sanghun Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kwanggyoon Seo (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an image processing method and apparatus. The image processing method includes extracting a content latent code and a style latent code for each of a plurality of input images, obtaining a content feature vector by calculating a weighted sum of content latent codes extracted from the input images based on a morp...