US Patent Issued to Snap on May 20 for "Text and audio-based real-time face reenactment" (British, American, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,014, issued on May 20, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Text and audio-based real-time face reenactment" was invented by Pavel Savchenkov (London), Maxim Lukin (Sochi, Russia) and Aleksandr Mashrabov (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for text and audio-based real-time face reenactment are provided. An example method includes receiving an input text and a target image, where the target image including a target face, generating, based on the input text, a sequence of sets of acoustic features corresponding to the input text, generating, based on the sequence of sets of acoustic features, ...