US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) on Feb. 17 for "Facial expression-based unlocking method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,813, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Facial expression-based unlocking method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Xuelei Wu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facial expression-based unlocking method includes displaying an expression unlock page, and displaying an unlock node sequence on the expression unlock page. The method also includes creating, at a current unlock node in the unlock node sequence, an unlock status notification based on a facial expression in a facial image captured in real time, and completing unlocking b...