US Patent Issued to ObjectVideo Labs on March 3 for "Facial recognition database using face clustering" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,283, issued on March 3, was assigned to ObjectVideo Labs LLC (Tysons, Va.).

"Facial recognition database using face clustering" was invented by Yuanwei Wu (McLean, Va.), Gang Qian (McLean, Va.), Sung Chun Lee (Tysons, Va.) and Allison Beach (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for fast user enrollment for facial recognition using face clustering. A property monitoring system may reduce user input requirements by automatically performing face clustering, and requesting a user identify face images by cluster. Presenting clusters of ...