US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises, ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) on Feb. 17 for "Generating an image including a source individual" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,273, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Disney Enterprises INC. (Burbank, Calif.) and ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Generating an image including a source individual" was invented by Jacek Krzysztof Naruniec (Zug, Switzerland), Manuel Jakob Kansy (Horgen, Switzerland), Graziana Mignone (Illnau, Switzerland), Christopher Richard Schroers (Uster, Switzerland) and Romann Matthew Weber (Uster, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing face swapping. The technique includes generating a latent representation of ...