US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 4 for "AI-based avatar creation using style transfer and subject images" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,152, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"AI-based avatar creation using style transfer and subject images" was invented by Ji Li (San Jose, Calif.), Fatima Zohra Daha (Livemore, Calif.) and Mingxi Cheng (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system implements receiving a style request including a style image and image(s) of subject(s) for generating an avatar for the subject(s); constructing a first prompt by appending the style request and the image(s) to a first instruction string, the first instruction string including instructions to a multimodal model to g...