US Patent Issued to Facense on Aug. 5 for "Smart windowing for reducing power consumption of a head-mounted camera used for detecting facial expressions" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,778, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Facense Ltd. (Kiryat Tivon, Israel).

"Smart windowing for reducing power consumption of a head-mounted camera used for detecting facial expressions" was invented by Gil Thieberger (Kiryat Tivon, Israel) and Ari M Frank (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method that utilize windowing for efficient capturing of facial landmarks include an inward-facing head-mounted camera that captures images of a region on a user's face utilizing a sensor supporting changing of its region of interest (ROI). The system also includes a computer that detects, based on the images, a type of facia...