US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Sept. 23 for "Reconstruction of occluded regions of a face using machine learning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,200, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Reconstruction of occluded regions of a face using machine learning" was invented by Rathish Krishnan (San Mateo, Calif.), Deepali Arya (San Mateo, Calif.), Manoj Srivastava (San Mateo, Calif.), Seema Kataria (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jason Wang (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image of a computer game player wearing a headset that occludes part of the face is input to a trained machine learning (ML) model, which outputs in response a full-face image that is not occluded for use in, e.g., social network settings related to the ga...