ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,376, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Detecting relighting in projected light patterns" was invented by Hao Zhou (Seattle), Xiang Xu (New Hyde Park, N.Y.), Jonathan Wu (Seattle) and Joseph P Tighe (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining whether image data is authentic based on a projected light pattern is described. The system is configured to obtain image data submitted to a biometric authorization system that applies facial recognition techniques to the image data to make an authorization determination. The system is further configured to apply a detection model to the...