ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,388, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Unsupervised volumetric animation" was invented by Menglei Chai (Los Angeles), Hsin-Ying Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Willi Menapace (Santa Monica, Calif.), Kyle Olszewski (Los Angeles), Jian Ren (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Aliaksandr Siarohin (Los Angeles), Ivan Skorokhodov (Los Angeles) and Sergey Tulyakov (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Unsupervised volumetric 3D animation (UVA) of non-rigid deformable objects without annotations learns the 3D structure and dynamics of objects solely from single-view red/green/blue (RGB) videos and decomposes t...