ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,898, issued on June 24, was assigned to ZOZO INC. (Chiba, Japan).
"Program and search system for hairstyle identification" was invented by Chinami Hirakawa (Mitaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search system and the like is capable of accurately retrieving a captured image of a hairstyle specified by a user. The search system includes: a head region extraction unit that extracts a head region of a person from a captured image; an orientation estimation unit that estimates a face orientation of the person from the head region; a mask image generation unit that generates a mask image in which a hair region and a remaining reg...