ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,042, issued on April 1, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image processing device and image processing method" was invented by Seiji Kimura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a device and method that enable highly accurate and efficient three-dimensional model generation processing. The device includes: a facial feature information detection unit that analyzes a facial image of a subject shot by an image capturing unit and detects facial feature information; an input data selection unit that selects, from a plurality of facial images shot by the image capturing unit and a plurality of pieces of facial feature...