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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2014
Applied Recognition Inc., Burlington, CA;
Ray Ganong, Stoney Creek, CA;
Donald Craig Waugh, Oakville, CA;
Yong Man Ro, Daejeon, KR;
Konstantinos Plataniotis, Toronto, CA;
Chris Studholme, Ottawa, CA;
Applied Recognition Inc., Burlington, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
The present invention provides, in at least one aspect, methods and systems that detect at least one face in at least one digital image, determine and store area co-ordinates of a location of the at least one detected face in the at least one digital image, apply at least one transformation to the at least one detected face to create at least one portrait of the at least one detected face, rotate the at least one portrait at least until the at least one portrait is shown in a vertical orientation and a pair of eyes of the at least one face shown in the at least one portrait are positioned on a horizontal plane; and store the rotated at least one portrait.