US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) on Feb. 25 for "Facial expression recognition method and apparatus, electronic device and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,712, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Facial expression recognition method and apparatus, electronic device and storage medium" was invented by Yanbo Fan (Guangdong, China), Yong Zhang (Guangdong, China), Le Li (Guangdong, China), Baoyuan Wu (Guangdong, China), Zhifeng Li (Guangdong, China) and Wei Liu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facial expression recognition method includes extracting a first feature from color information of pixels in a first image, and extracting a second feature of facial key points from the first image. The method further include...