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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2017
Avigilon Patent Holding 1 Corporation, Vancouver, CA;
Charles A. Myers, La Jolla, CA (US);
Alex Shah, San Diego, CA (US);
AVIGILON PATENT HOLDING 1 CORPORATION, Vancouver, CA;
Abstract
A method and system for matching an unknown facial image of an individual with an image of a celebrity using facial recognition techniques and human perception is disclosed herein. The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals using a digital camera, cellular telephone camera, wireless device for the purpose of returning information regarding similar faces to the user. The system features classification of unknown facial images from a variety of internet accessible sources, including mobile phones, wireless camera-enabled devices, images obtained from digital cameras or scanners that are uploaded from PCs, third-party applications and databases. Once classified, the matching person's name, image and associated meta-data is sent back to the user. The method and system uses human perception techniques to weight the feature vectors.