US Patent Issued to Deep Media on Oct. 14 for "System and method for processing media for facial manipulation" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,230, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Deep Media Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"System and method for processing media for facial manipulation" was invented by Rijul Gupta (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of processing media for facial manipulation. Input frames are downscaled to a lower resolution and facial detection identifies a target face in each input frame. The location of the target face is determined in the downscaled frames and the locations are projected to the input frames based on the pixel differences between the frames. Facial landmark detection is then performed on a cropped image from t...