US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on March 24 for "Detecting emotional state of a user based on facial appearance and visual perception information" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,409, issued on March 24, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Detecting emotional state of a user based on facial appearance and visual perception information" was invented by Yuhu Chang (Shanghai), Yingying Zhao (Shanghai), Qin Lv (Boulder, Colo.), Robert Paul Dick (Chelsea, Mich.) and Li Shang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting an emotional state of a user includes obtaining a first data stream indicative of facial appearance and gaze direction of the user as the user is viewing a scene, determining, based on the first data stream, facial expression feature inf...