ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,914, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Methods and systems for artificial intelligence (AI)-based storyboard generation" was invented by Warren M. Benedetto (Foothill Ranch, Calif.) and Jonathan Webb (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An initial seed input for generation of a storyboard is received. A current image generation input is set the same as the initial seed input. A first artificial intelligence model is executed to automatically generate a current frame image based on the current image generation input. The current frame image and its corresponding description a...