US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 12 for "Facial expression recognition using enrollment images" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,533, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Facial expression recognition using enrollment images" was invented by Peng Liu (San Diego), Lei Wang (San Diego), Ning Bi (San Diego), Zhen Wang (San Diego) and Shiwei Jin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques are described herein for processing images to detect expressions of a subject. In one illustrative example, a method of recognizing facial expressions in one or more images includes obtaining, by a computing device, a first image of a person; obtaining expression information based on the first image and an anchor image associated with t...