ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,639, issued on April 15, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Generating virtual hairstyle using latent space projectors" was invented by Aleksandr Belskikh (London), Menglei Chai (Los Angeles), Antoine Chassang (London), Anna Kovalenko (London) and Pavel Savchenkov (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments enable virtual hair generation. The virtual hair generation can be performed by generating a first image of a face using a GAN model, applying 3D virtual hair on the first image to generate a second image with 3D virtual hair, projecting the second image with 3D virtual hair into a GAN latent space to generat...