US Patent Issued to L'Oreal on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for acne counting, localization and visualization" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,319, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to L'Oreal (Paris).

"Systems and methods for acne counting, localization and visualization" was invented by Yuze Zhang (Scarborough, Canada), Ruowei Jiang (Toronto) and Parham Aarabi (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and techniques provide for acne localization, counting and visualization. An image is processed using a trained model to identify objects. The model may be a deep learning (e.g. convolutional neural) network configured for object classification with a detection focus on small objects. The image may be a frontal or profile facial image, processed en...