US Patent Issued to Snap on July 29 for "Single image three-dimensional hair reconstruction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,036, issued on July 29, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Single image three-dimensional hair reconstruction" was invented by Zeng Huang (Los Angeles), Menglei Chai (Los Angeles), Sergey Tulyakov (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Kyle Olszewski (Los Angeles) and Hsin-Ying Lee (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to enable 3D hair reconstruction and rendering from a single reference image which performs a multi-stage process that utilizes both a 3D implicit representation and a 2D parametric embedding space."

The patent was filed on July 21, 2022, under Application No. 17/814,063.

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