US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms on Oct. 21 for "Altering a facial identity in a video stream" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,705, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Altering a facial identity in a video stream" was invented by Oran Gafni (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Lior Wolf (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device performs generating a first identity encoding representing a first facial identity of the person based on an image of a person, generating a second identity encoding representing a second facial identity different from the first facial identity of the person based on the first identity encoding, generating a source encoding by using an encoder to process a source image of the pers...