US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on July 7 for "Systems and methods for determining and using a multidimensional measure of apparent skin color" (Japanese, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,913, issued on July 7, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for determining and using a multidimensional measure of apparent skin color" was invented by William Eric Thong (Zurich), Przemyslaw Kamil Joniak (Tokyo) and Alice Xiang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods can compute a multidimensional score of apparent skin color to capture skin color variation and provide a comprehensive representation of its constitutive complexity. The multidimensional apparent skin color score can be used to reveal biases related to skin color in image datasets and computer vision models. The multidimens...