ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,348, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to THE FACE RECOGNITION COMPANY LTD (Cirencester, Great Britain).
"Recognition of 3D objects" was invented by Tim Noest (Gloucestershire, Great Britain) and Nicholas Pears (York, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "3D objects in the form of human faces are recognised at or adjacent an entrance to a building. Cameras are spaced horizontally from one another in an array to provide multiple viewpoints of a common scene with overlapping fields of view. For each of the cameras, a sequence of images of a face is generated and each of those images is normalised to a canonical view. One or more b...