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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2013
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Russell Reid, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nikhil Bhatt, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00234 (2013.01); G06K 9/00248 (2013.01); G06K 9/4652 (2013.01);
Abstract
One aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be implemented in a method that includes sampling an image to generate a sample portion; evaluating pixels in the sample portion to determine whether the pixels correspond to skin tone colors; generating, based on the determination, a skin tone result indicating a confidence level that the received image includes a depiction of human skin; and providing the skin tone result to an image management application to indicate a likelihood the image depicts a human face.