ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,882, issued on March 25, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Actor-replacement system for videos" was invented by Sunil Ramesh (Cupertino, Calif.), Michael Cutter (Golden, Colo.) and Karina Levitian (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an example method includes (i) estimating, using a skeletal detection model, a pose of an original actor for each of multiple frames of a video; (ii) obtaining, for each of a plurality of the estimated poses, a respective image of a replacement actor; (iii) obtaining replacement speech in the replacement actor's voice that corresponds to speech of the original actor ...