US Patent Issued to NEC on June 30 for "Compositional image generation and manipulation" (New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,628, issued on June 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Compositional image generation and manipulation" was invented by Renqiang Min (Princeton, N.J.), Kai Li (Plainsboro, N.J.), Shaobo Han (Princeton, N.J.), Hans Peter Graf (South Amboy, N.J.) and Changhao Shi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for image generation include generating a latent representation of an image, modifying the latent representation of the image based on a trained attribute classifier and a specified attribute input, and decoding the modified latent representation to generate an output image that matches the specified attribute ...