US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 4 for "Makeup blending in image generation" (Canadian, American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,198, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Makeup blending in image generation" was invented by Hui Pang (Bothell, Wash.), Sunil Sharadchandra Hadap (Dublin, Calif.), Rahul Suresh (Vancouver, Canada), Amin Banitalebi Dehkordi (Vancouver, Canada) and Violetta Shevchenko (Adelaide, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for generating an image of a person's face virtually wearing a selected makeup given an input image of the face. The face image can be processed to decompose aspects of the person's face, such as shading, highlighting, boundaries, and color of the face. ...