ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,838, issued on March 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Perspective distortion correction on faces" was invented by Yichang Shih (Cupertino, Calif.) and Chia-Kai Liang (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods related to image processing are provided. A computing device can determine a first image area of an image, such as an image captured by a camera. The computing device can determine a warping mesh for the image with a first portion of the warping mesh associated with the first image area. The computing device can determine a cost function for the warping mesh by: determining fi...