ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,812, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Text-guided cameo generation" was invented by Arnab Ghosh (Oxford, Great Britain), Jian Ren (Marina Del Ray, Calif.), Pavel Savchenkov (London) and Sergey Tulyakov (Marina del Rey, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating an image for use in a conversation taking place in a messaging application is disclosed. Conversation input text is received from a user of a portable device that includes a display. Model input text is generated from the conversation input text, which is processed with a text-to-image model to generate an image based on...