US Patent Issued to Canon on March 11 for "Apparatus and method for detecting facial pose, image processing system, and storage medium" (Chinese, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,183, issued on March 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and method for detecting facial pose, image processing system, and storage medium" was invented by Qiao Wang (Beijing), Deyu Wang (Beijing), Kotaro Kitajima (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoko Watazawa (Tokyo), Tsewei Chen (Tokyo), Wei Tao (Beijing) and Dongchao Wen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses an apparatus and a method for detecting a facial pose, an image processing system, and a storage medium. The apparatus comprises: an obtaining unit to obtain at least three keypoints of at least one face from an input image based on a pre-...