ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,027, issued on June 3, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Avatar generation according to artistic styles" was invented by Rameen Abdal (Los Angeles), Menglei Chai (Los Angeles), Hsin-Ying Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Aliaksandr Siarohin (Los Angeles), Sergey Tulyakov (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Peihao Zhu (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Domain adaptation frameworks for producing a 3D avatar generative adversarial network (GAN) capable of generating an avatar based on a single photographic image. The 3D avatar GAN is produced by training a target domain using an artistic dataset. Each artistic dataset includes a p...