ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,881, issued on June 30, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for personalized media content alteration" was invented by Jean-Yves Couleaud (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An appearance of a character depicted in a media asset may be altered, for example, by a trained machine learning model, based on demographic attributes of a consumer of the media asset, such as the age or ethnicity of the consumer. A character alteration rule may limit some types of alteration, for example, re-aging a char...