ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,164, issued on July 1, was assigned to Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image processing method and system for updating template library based on life value of facial template images" was invented by Xiaolin Huang (Shenzhen, China), Wei Huang (Munich), Wenkang Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Junhao Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses image processing methods and systems. One method includes: obtaining a first image, obtaining a template image having a life value that determines whether the template image is valid, comparing the first image with the template image, an...