ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,527, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Detecting forged facial images using frequency domain information and local correlation" was invented by Taiping Yao (Shenzhen, China), Shen Chen (Shenzhen, China), Yang Chen (Shenzhen, China), Shouhong Ding (Shenzhen, China), Jilin Li (Shenzhen, China) and Feiyue Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image detection method includes obtaining a facial image, and obtaining a frequency-domain image of the facial image and a spatial-domain feature of the facial image, the frequency-domain image being obtained by performi...