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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2012
Pan Zhang, Shenzhen, CN;
Pan Zhang, Shenzhen, CN;
Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., New Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A face recognition method recognizes complete faces in a preview image of a group photo taken by an image capturing device, divides the preview image into default blocks if the number of the complete faces is no more than a predetermined number, and adjusts the default blocks into adjusted blocks, wherein the adjusted blocks comprising complete face blocks and non-complete face blocks, wherein each of the complete face blocks contains only one complete face while each of the non-complete face blocks does not contain any complete face, and one of the most adjacent complete face contains one of the most adjacent complete faces. The method analyzes the adjusted blocks to obtain target blocks from the non-complete face blocks which is most adjacent to any one of the complete face blocks and recognizes facial features in each of the target blocks and obtain non-complete face blocks.