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I did a startup for this specific purpose. I wrote an acquired a global patent on automated actor replacement in filmed media, which included replacing actors,
by bsenftner 5y ago
I did a startup for this specific purpose. I wrote an acquired a global patent on automated actor replacement in filmed media, which included replacing actors, set pieces, backgrounds, audio elements, and pretty much anything that could be modified with personally relevant replacements. I wrote the patent in 2004, and with great personal expense it was global by 2008. My team was the VFX Academy Award winning team behind the film "Babe" (the talking pig), and our system worked. But we launch in 2008, right as the financial crisis hit, nobody believed our demonstrations of inserting their own people into video right before their eyes, but they wanted to pursue pornography. I refused to pursue phonography. Three times I managed to put together angel investment teams only to have them group-wide choose to pursue porn. I was not going to be "that guy" who ends up hated by every female alive, after a public fantasy sex site allowing anyone to Deep-Porn-Fake anyone they want goes public. So, anyway, I spent far too long pursuing the idea, went personally bankrupt, and switched to working in facial recognition. At least there nobody wants to do porn.
- londons_explore 5y agoOoh... So it expires in 2024? Thats when all this will start!
- bsenftner 5y agoDue to filing the preliminary early, the expiration was 2017. Interesting about that date: the day after the patent expired Facebook announced their AR kit/library. https://patents.justia.com/assignee/flixor-inc https://patents.justia.com/assignee/flixor-inc