US Patent Issued to Lucasfilm Entertainment, Disney Enterprises on April 15 for "Method and system for latent-space facial feature editing in deep learning based face swapping" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,738, issued on April 15, was assigned to Lucasfilm Entertainment Co. Ltd. LLC (San Francisco) and Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Method and system for latent-space facial feature editing in deep learning based face swapping" was invented by Sirak Ghebremusse (San Francisco), Stephane Grabli (San Francisco), 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 that includes: receiving an input image that includes a f...