ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,076, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GN Hearing A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).
"Triggering a head-pose dependent action" was invented by Kirill Kondrashov (Helmond 't Hout, Netherlands) and Qi Yang (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an apparatus comprising a camera and a processing unit operatively coupled to the camera, wherein the processing unit is configured to: receive a sequence of images captured by the camera; process a first image of the received sequence of images to compute respective likelihoods of each of a plurality of predetermined facial features being visible in the first image; compute, from th...