ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,611, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Image generation using surface-based neural synthesis" was invented by Iason Kokkinos (London), Georgios Papandreou (London) and Riza Alp Guler (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving a two-dimensional continuous surface representation of a three-dimensional object, the continuous surface comprising a plurality of landmark locations; determining a first set of soft membership functions based on a relative location of points in the two-dimensional contin...