US Patent Issued to Snap on Oct. 21 for "Embeddings representing visual augmentations" (California, New York, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,841, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Embeddings representing visual augmentations" was invented by Zhenpeng Zhou (Newark, Calif.), Patrick Poirson (Gilbert, Ariz.), Maksim Gusarov (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Chen Wang (Great Neck, N.Y.) and Oleg Tovstyi (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input video item that includes a target visual augmentation is accessed. A machine learning model uses the input video item to generate an embedding. The embedding may comprise a vector representation of a visual effect of the target visual augmentation. The machine learning model is trained, in an unsu...