US Patent Issued to Snap on July 15 for "Protecting image features in stylized representations of a source image" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,614, issued on July 15, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Protecting image features in stylized representations of a source image" was invented by Konstantin Gudkov (London), Sergey Demyanov (Santa Monica, Calif.), Andrey Alejandrovich Gomez Zharkov (London), Fedor Zhdanov (London) and Vadim Velicodnii (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods herein describe an image stylization system. The image stylization system accesses a set of images corresponding to a target domain style, generates a set of paired images using a first machine learning model, analyze the generated set of paired images using a ...