ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,496, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HONOR DEVICE Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).
"Method and apparatus for facial recognition" was invented by Jianming Lv (Shenzhen, China) and Jiangfeng Yuan (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application relate to the terminal field, and provide a method and an apparatus for facial recognition so as to improve security of facial recognition. The method is applied to an electronic device, where the electronic device includes a TOF camera module, and the TOF camera module includes a transmitter configured to transmit a light signal. The method includes: receiving a first...