US Patent Issued to L'Oreal on Oct. 7 for "Techniques for identifying skin color in images having uncontrolled lighting conditions" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,577, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to L'Oreal (Paris).

"Techniques for identifying skin color in images having uncontrolled lighting conditions" was invented by Christine Elfakhri (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Florent Valceschini (Jersey City, N.J.), Loic Tran (Vincennes, France), Matthieu Perrot (Orsay, France), Robin Kips (Paris) and Emmanuel Malherbe (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments of the present disclosure, one or more machine learning models are trained to accurately estimate skin color in one or more images regardless of the lighting conditions. In some embodiments, the models can then be used to estimate a skin c...