US Patent Issued on Dec. 9 for "Selecting initial correspondences used in co-registration of face images" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,029, issued on Dec. 9.

"Selecting initial correspondences used in co-registration of face images" was invented by Tinashe Kucherera (Raleigh, N.C.), Lake Robert Maxwell (Cary, N.C.), Connor Raines (Monroe, N.C.) and Jeffrey S Holland (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer program product provides for obtaining first and second three-dimensional point clouds from first and second three-dimensional face images. The first three-dimensional point cloud is orthogonally projected onto a two-dimensional plane to form a first two-dimensional point cloud. A first set of initial correspondence points are identified in the ...