US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Aug. 19 for "System and method for facial un-distortion in digital images using multiple imaging sensors" (Texas, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,076, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for facial un-distortion in digital images using multiple imaging sensors" was invented by Zeeshan Nadir (Allen, Texas), Numair Khan (Providence, R.I.) and Hamid Sheikh (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes aligning landmark points between multiple distorted images to generate multiple aligned images, where the multiple distorted images exhibit perspective distortion in at least one face appearing in the multiple distorted images. The method also includes predicting a depth map using a disparity es...