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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2004
Timothy Patrick Kelliher, Scotia, NY (US);
Peter Henry Tu, Schenectady, NY (US);
Wesley David Turner, Rexford, NY (US);
Rebecca Erin Biewer Brown, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Michael Alan Taister, Oakton, VA (US);
Kevin William Peter Miller, Washington, DC (US);
Timothy Patrick Kelliher, Scotia, NY (US);
Peter Henry Tu, Schenectady, NY (US);
Wesley David Turner, Rexford, NY (US);
Rebecca Erin Biewer Brown, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Michael Alan Taister, Oakton, VA (US);
Kevin William Peter Miller, Washington, DC (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A system, method and apparatus for performing a facial approximation is described. The system includes an acquisition subsystem and a facial approximation algorithm. The method includes the steps of acquiring models of known skulls and a model of a questioned skull, comparing the models of the known skulls with the model of the questioned skull, and removing variation in the facial structure of the questioned skull due to skeletal variation between the known skulls and the questioned skull. The apparatus includes a bony structure software component, a bony structure warping software component, and a soft tissue software component.