US Patent Issued to Snap on June 23 for "Device-based image modification of depicted objects" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,914, issued on June 23, was assigned to Snap Inc..

"Device-based image modification of depicted objects" was invented by Theresa Barton (San Mateo, Calif.), Yanping Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Jaewook Chung (Mountain View, Calif.), Christopher Yale Crutchfield (San Diego), Aymeric Damien (San Francisco), Sergei Kotcur (Sochi, Russia), Igor Kudriashov (Saratov, Russia), Sergey Tulyakov (Santa Monica, Calif.), Andrew Wan (Marina del Rey, Calif.) and Emre Yamangil (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of machine learning schemes can be configured to efficiently perform image processing tasks on a user device, such as a mob...