US Patent Issued to Snap on Nov. 4 for "Monocular camera defocus face measuring" (New York, Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,418, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Monocular camera defocus face measuring" was invented by Gurunandan Krishnan Gorumkonda (Kirkland, Wash.), Shree K. Nayar (New York) and Yicheng Wu (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device that measures a size of a user's face, referred to as face scaling, using a monocular camera. Depth is calculated from sparse feature points. A face mesh is used to improve the estimation accuracy. A processing pipeline detects face features by applying a face landmark detection algorithm to find the important face feature points such as the eyes, nose, and mouth. The p...