US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on May 19 for "Face region detection and local reshaping enhancement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,160, issued on May 19, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Face region detection and local reshaping enhancement" was invented by Tsung-Wei Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Guan-Ming Su (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and corresponding systems to process face regions are disclosed. The described methods include providing face bounding boxes and confidence levels for the faces, generating a histogram of the pixels and the faces, generating a probability of face, and generating a face probability map. A face contrast adjustment and a face saturation adjustment can be applied to the f...