US Patent Issued to Snap on July 29 for "Video synthesis via multimodal conditioning" (California, New Jersey, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,766, issued on July 29, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Video synthesis via multimodal conditioning" was invented by Francesco Barbieri (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Ligong Han (Edison, N.J.), Hsin-Ying Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Shervin Minaee (Bellevue, Wash.), Kyle Olszewski (Los Angeles), Jian Ren (Hermosa Beach, Calif.) and Sergey Tulyakov (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimodal video generation framework (MMVID) that benefits from text and images provided jointly or separately as input. Quantized representations of videos are utilized with a bidirectional transformer with multiple modalitie...