ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,261, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for text-to-image generation using self-supervised discriminator to extract image feature" was invented by Dai Jin Kim (Pohang-si, South Korea) and Eun Yeong Jeon (Pohang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for text-to-image generation which is a self-supervised based on one-stage generative adversarial network and uses a discriminator network that extracts an image feature may comprise: a text encoder that extracts a sentence vector from input text; a discriminator that ...