ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,806, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Identifying partially covered objects utilizing machine learning" was invented by Jingwen Zhu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vinay Sharma (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jonghoon Jin (Cupertino, Calif.), Nitin Gupta (Cupertino, Calif.), Floris Chabert (San Francisco), Hendrik Dahlkamp (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Muriel Nahmani (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for determining the presence of a particular person based on facial characteristics. For example, a device may include a first image in a reference set of images based on determining that...