ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,905, issued on May 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Region-based stabilized face tracking" was invented by Chen Cao (Los Angeles), Menglei Chai (Los Angeles), Linjie Luo (Los Angeles) and Oliver Woodford (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a method for accessing a set of images depicting at least a portion of a face. A set of facial regions of the face is identified, each facial region of the set of facial regions intersecting another facial region with at least one c...