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face is just a particular pattern, pattern matching and replacing was all done since the sixties.

• bsenftner 11y ago
  True that the face is just a pattern, but matching and replacing in a manner that a human viewer is not aware of the manipulation is an entirely different matter. Integrated lighting, media grain, obscuring elements, including any reflections of your subject in the replacement, matching motion blur aliasing and so forth form the realistic problem to solve.
  • jameshart 11y ago
    Those are all problems, not solutions. Problems aren't patentable. A method for solving problems is - and even then, only if it's a novel, nonobvious method.
    • taejo 11y ago
      Reading some patents, it seems "use a computer program" is a patentable solution, though.
• pyre 11y ago
  Patents are for particular methods of doing this. You can't reduce all patents to "moving atoms and molecules around in different configurations" claim prior art, and invalidate all past, present and future patents. To illustrate this, a patent (as originally intended at least) wouldn't be for something broad like "walking down the street" but maybe for something more like "walking down the street with a particular gait." While I don't necessarily agree with the patent system, it detracts from the conversation with it's not an informed discussion.