US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Oct. 6 for "Method and apparatus for de-identifying a face in an image in a natural way" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,574, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for de-identifying a face in an image in a natural way" was invented by Yong-Seok Seo (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung-hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hye-Mi Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jee Hyun Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong-Hyuck Im (Daejeon, South Korea) and Wonyoung Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variety of exemplary embodiments for processing images are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, an image processing method includes a step of extracting a first face featu...