US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Nov. 4 for "Assessing face image quality for application of facial recognition" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,605, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Guangdong, China).

"Assessing face image quality for application of facial recognition" was invented by Xingyu Chen (Shenzhen, China), Ruixin Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Fuzhao Ou (Shenzhen, China), Yuge Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Shaoxin Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A face image quality assessment method includes acquiring a face image, and determining a similarity distribution distance of the face image, the similarity distribution distance including a distribution distance between an intra-person similarity distribution of the face image and an ...