ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,842, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Optical flow latent space smoothing" was invented by Nir Malbin (Shoham, Israel), Jonathan Heimann (Herzliya, Israel), Avihay Assouline (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Itamar Berger (Hod Hasharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for using machine learning models to perform smoothing in latent space using optical flow information. The methods and systems access a first frame of a video depicting an object and a second frame of the video, the second frame corresponding to a later time period in the video than the first frame. The m...