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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Gavin B. Thomson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Eric Circlaeys, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Paul M. Bombach, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Tony F. Kinnis, San Jose, CA (US);
Baskaran Subramaniam, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments are disclosed for face syncing in a distributed computing environment. In an embodiment, a method comprises: obtaining, by a processor, media assets that include faces of individuals; detecting, by the processor of a mobile device, the faces on the media assets; generating, by the processor, faceprints for the detected faces; clustering, by the processor, the faceprints into clusters; generating, by the processor, a face crop image for each cluster; and sending, by the processor, the face crop images to a network-based, distributed syncing service.