ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,978, issued on April 21, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Emotion recognition method and apparatus based on context information" was invented by Byung-Ok Han (Daejeon, South Korea), Moon-Ki Back (Daejeon, South Korea), Jang-Hee Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Cheol-Hwan Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are an emotion recognition method and method based on context information. The emotion recognition method includes detecting information corresponding to an emotion recognition subject from an input image, extracting a recognition sub...