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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015

Filed:

May. 10, 2013
Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Michael Christian Nechyba, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Michael Andrew Sipe, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/228 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/6267 (2013.01); H04N 5/228 (2013.01); G06K 9/00221 (2013.01); H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); H04N 5/23293 (2013.01); H04M 2250/00 (2013.01); G06K 9/00228 (2013.01); G06K 9/036 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example method includes capturing, by a camera of a mobile computing device, an image, determining whether the image includes a representation of at least a portion of a face, and, when the image includes the representation of at least the portion of the face, analyzing characteristics of the image. The characteristics include at least one of a tonal distribution of the image that is associated with a darkness-based mapping of a plurality of pixels of the image, and a plurality of spatial frequencies of the image that are associated with a visual transition between adjacent pixels of the image. The method further includes classifying, by the mobile computing device, a quality of the image based at least in part on the analyzed characteristics of the image.


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