ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,913, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NEC Corporation Of America (Herzlia, Israel).
"Facial gesture recognition in SWIR images" was invented by Aaron Mark Lieber (Rishon le Zion, Israel) and Tsvi Lev (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a system for analyzing images for facial expression recognition, comprising: at least one short wave infrared (SWIR) illumination element that generates SWIR illumination for illumination of a face of a person, at least one SWIR sensor that captures at least one SWIR image of the face under the SWIR illumination, and a non-transitory medium storing program instructions,...