US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Jan. 20 for "Apparatus and method with liveness consideration" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,924, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method with liveness consideration" was invented by Solae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngjun Kwak (Seoul, South Korea), Byung In Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Hana Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jiho Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liveness test method includes detecting a face region in an input image; generating, based on the detected face region, weight map data related to a face location in the input image; generating concatenated data by concatenating the weight map data with feature data generat...