US Patent Issued to Metaphysic on June 3 for "Latent space editing and neural animation to generate hyperreal synthetic faces" (British, Thai Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,018, issued on June 3, was assigned to Metaphysic Ltd. (London).

"Latent space editing and neural animation to generate hyperreal synthetic faces" was invented by Chris Ume (Bangkok), Jo Plaete (London), Martin Adams (Cheltenham, Great Britain) and Thomas Graham (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Using latent space manipulation and neural animation to generate hyperreal synthetic faces is described. A machine learning model(s) may be trained to generate a synthetic face of a subject featured in unaltered video content based at least in part on video data of an actor making a mouth-generated sound or a three-dimensional (3D) model ...