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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:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2013
Applicant:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00248 (2013.01); G06K 9/00234 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus comprises a processor configured to: input an image; detect a skin area in the image to obtain an expanded rectangular facial candidate area; detect a face in the expanded rectangular facial candidate area to obtain an initial detected facial area; subject the initial detected facial area to a false alarm removal; and output a detected facial area.