ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,728, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for detecting best shot in long-range face recognition system" was invented by Jang-Hee Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea), Cheolhwan Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea) and ByungOk Han (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for detecting the best shot in a long-range face recognition system is provided. The method of detecting the best shot includes detecting a facial area in an image received from the outside, calculating a quality element measurement value of the face image...