ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,411, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Humintell LLC (El Cerrito, Calif.).
"Facial emotion recognition system" was invented by David Matsumoto (Richmond, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system identifies video data capturing an expressor depicting facial behavior. The computing system analyzes the video data to determine a type of emotion exhibited by the expressor in the video data by identifying appearance changes produced by movements of facial muscles in the video data; and determining timing characteristics of the movements of the facial muscles in the video data, the timing characteristics indicating whether ...