US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on July 21 for "Method, system, and program for facial expression evaluation using reference and measurement result" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,730, issued on July 21, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method, system, and program for facial expression evaluation using reference and measurement result" was invented by Akane Kitagawa (Kyoto, Japan), Koichi Murata (Kyoto, Japan), Yasuyuki Uraoka (Kyoto, Japan) and Masafumi Furuta (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer evaluates a facial expression of a subject. More specifically, the computer obtains a reference for physiological information of a facial area of the subject in response to occurrence of a given incident. Further, the computer obtains a measurement result of the physiological informa...