ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,947, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Distortion-based image rendering" was invented by Sajid Sadi (San Jose, Calif.), Varun Menon (Mountain View, Calif.), Siddarth Ravichandran (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chuhua Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hyun Jae Kang (Mountain View, Calif.), Rahul Lokesh (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Vignesh Gokul (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synthesizing high-resolution input for rendering a digital human includes generating, with a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model, a distorted image of the digital human by enhancing a region ...