ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,337, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to BIGO TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Face tracking method and electronic device" was invented by Wenyu Chen (Singapore, China) and Gengdai Liu (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a face tracking method. The method includes: in a process of tracking a face in a video frame, determining whether an optimization thread is running; in response to the optimization thread running and the video frame being a key frame, updating a second keyframe data set based on the video frame; in response to receiving a clear instruction from the optimization thread, clearing the video ...