US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Aug. 18 for "Ethical human-centric image dataset" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,805, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ethical human-centric image dataset" was invented by Jerone Andrews (Tokyo) and Alice Xiang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diverse dataset of human images can be created by collecting a plurality of images from a plurality of diverse people. A first graphical user interface requires a user to provide subject data, instrument data and environment data as metadata for each of the plurality of images. A second graphical user interface requires a user to form a bounding box about a face of a subject in each of the plurality of images. A third graphical user int...