US Patent Issued to DISNEY ENTERPRISES on May 12 for "Facial image swapping" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,434, issued on May 12, was assigned to DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Facial image swapping" was invented by Santiago Iglesias Navarro (Palma de Mallorca, Spain), Pablo Pernias Pascual de Pobil (San Juan de Alicante, Spain), Robert B. Moore (Clermont, Fla.) and David N. Juboor (Johnson City, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating modified images using facial content information are disclosed. First image data comprising first facial content information is received, and a facial content encoder generates a first embedding by extracting the first facial content information from the first image data. ...