US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 13 for "Liveness detection based on motion, face, and context cues" (New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,035, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Liveness detection based on motion, face, and context cues" was invented by Xiang Xu (New Hyde Park, N.Y.), Mingze Xu (Kirkland, Wash.), Zheng Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.), Yuanjun Xiong (Seattle), Wei Xia (Seattle), Jonathan Wu (Seattle) and Joseph P Tighe (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for liveness detection using a motion, face, and context cues. The techniques can be implemented to prevent against successful presentation attacks, video injection attacks, and deepfake attacks. In some examples, the techniques encompass receiving a set of vid...