ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,744, issued on June 30, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Low-resolution face recognition device and low-resolution face recognizer learning device and method" was invented by Hyungil Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Minho Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kang Min Bae (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a low-resolution face recognition device, which includes a high-resolution face image inputter; a low-resolution face image inputter; a high-resolution face feature extractor configured to extract a high-resolution face feature by...