US Patent Issued on Sept. 15 for "Head and ear tracking using image scaling with emotion detection" (American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,978, issued on Sept. 15.

"Head and ear tracking using image scaling with emotion detection" was invented by Kevin J. Bastyr (Franklin, Mich.), Abdullah Kucuk (Novi, Mich.), Vilayphone Vilaysouk (White Lake, Mich.) and Dariusz Jerzy Rzeszotarski (Platowcowa, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for image scaling based on emotion detection are described. In some embodiments, the techniques include acquiring one or more images of a user, processing the one more images to generate emotion-specific three-dimensional (3D) positions of ears of the user based on a 3D head geometry and an emotion of the user, where the emotion is...