ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,640, issued on April 15, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Photorealistic real-time portrait animation" was invented by Eugene Krokhalev (London), Aleksandr Mashrabov (Los Angeles) and Pavel Savchenkov (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods for portrait animation. An example method includes receiving, by a computing device, scenario data including information concerning movements of a first head, receiving, by the computing device, a target image including a second head and a background, determining, by the computing device and based on the target image and the information concerning t...