ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,848, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Deforming real-world object using image warping" was invented by Riza Alp Guler (London), Himmy Tam (London), Haoyang Wang (London) and Antonios Kakolyris (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for performing real-time deforming operations. The system receives an image that includes a depiction of a real-world object. The system applies a machine learning model to the image to generate a warping field and segmentation mask, the machine learning model trained to establish a relationship between a plurality of training images de...