ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,577, issued on March 18, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Pixel depth determination for object" was invented by Madiyar Aitbayev (London), Brian Fulkerson (London), Riza Alp Guler (London), Georgios Papandreou (London) and Himmy Tam (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations for applying augmented reality elements to a person depicted in an image. The operations include receiving an image that includes data representing a depiction of a person; extracting a portion of the image; applying a first machine learning model stage to the portion to predict a depth of...