US Patent Issued to Lemon on July 21 for "Using augmented face images to improve facial recognition tasks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,627, issued on July 21, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Using augmented face images to improve facial recognition tasks" was invented by Shuo Cheng (Los Angeles), Guoxian Song (Los Angeles), Wanchun Ma (Los Angeles), Chao Wang (Los Angeles) and Linjie Luo (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for generating synthetic images based on an input image are described. The method may include receiving an input image; generating, using an encoder, a first latent code vector representation based on the input image; receiving a latent code corresponding to a feature to be added to the input...