US Patent Issued to GRACENOTE on July 8 for "Obtaining artist imagery from video content using facial recognition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,404, issued on July 8, was assigned to GRACENOTE INC. (New York).

"Obtaining artist imagery from video content using facial recognition" was invented by Jeffrey Scott (Oakland, Calif.) and Aneesh Vartakavi (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method may include receiving, at a computing device, a digital image associated with a particular media content program, the digital image containing one or more faces of particular people associated with the particular media content program. A computer-implemented automated face recognition program may be applied to the digital image to recognize, based on at least one f...