US Patent Issued to Q (Cue) on March 18 for "Speech detection from facial skin movements" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,882, issued on March 18, was assigned to Q (Cue) Ltd. (Ramat Gan, Israel).

"Speech detection from facial skin movements" was invented by Aviad Maizels (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Avi Barliya (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yonatan Wexler (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for speech detection from facial skin movements. In one implementation, a system may include at least one light source, at least one sensor configured to receive light reflections from the at least one light source; and a processor configured to control the at least one light source to illuminate a region of a face of a user in a time ...