US Patent Issued to L'OREAL on Aug. 26 for "Method and system for effect contouring in an augmented reality experience" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,380, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to L'OREAL (Paris).

"Method and system for effect contouring in an augmented reality experience" was invented by Edmund Phung (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus and techniques shape localized objects using a shape model for rendering a reshaped object with an effect such as for a virtual try on (VTO) experience. A VTO can simulate finger/toe nail effects of a nail product or service to nail objects. An example system comprises a nail localization engine including computational circuitry to localize one or more nail objects in an input image of a hand or foot via one or more...