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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2003
Applicants:
Ajoy K. Ray, Kharagpur, IN;
Ranjit K. Mishra, Kharagpur, IN;
Tinku Acharya, Chandler, AZ (US);
Inventors:
Assignees:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method to use active contours to detect image boundaries of a first view and a second view of a human face, and mark a first set of fiducial points on the first view and a second set of fiducial points on the second view. Using the fiducial points, feature vectors may be calculated and stored in a database for later comparison with a query image.