ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,615, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Image processing method and apparatus" was invented by Dongwoo Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Jingu Heo (Yongin-si, South Korea), Byong Min Kang (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Dong Kyung Nam (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method includes acquiring an image frame; tracking a face region of a user based on first prior information obtained from at least one previous frame of the image frame; based on a determination that tracking of the face region based on the first prior information has failed, setting a...