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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2023
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Olivier Soares, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 40/16 (2022.01); G06F 18/214 (2023.01); G06N 3/04 (2023.01); G06N 3/08 (2023.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 40/175 (2022.01); G06F 18/214 (2023.01); G06N 3/04 (2013.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06T 17/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
Estimating emotion may include obtaining an image of at least part of a face, and applying, to the image, an expression convolutional neural network ('CNN') to obtain a latent vector for the image, where the expression CNN is trained from a plurality of pairs each comprising a facial image and a 3D mesh representation corresponding to the facial image. Estimating emotion may further include comparing the latent vector for the image to a plurality of previously processed latent vectors associated with known emotion types to estimate an emotion type for the image.