ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,847, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Image generation from text and 3D object" was invented by Avihay Assouline (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itamar Berger (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Gal Dudovitch (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Peleg Harel (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system for generating images that depict a real-world object in a scene. The system receives image content comprising a depth map of a scene and a three-dimensional (3D) model of a real-world object. The system receives a textual description for a background. The system applies the image c...