US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 25 for "Image processing for person recognition" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,526, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Image processing for person recognition" was invented by Sebastian Nowozin (Cambridge, Great Britain), Tom Ellis (Cambridge, Great Britain), Cecily Peregrine Borgatti Morrison (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Daniel Coelho De Castro (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing system is described which has a memory holding at least one image depicting at least one person previously unseen by the image processing system. The system has a trained probabilistic model which describes a relationship between image features, context, id...