Patents Examined by Shtephen R Koziol
  • Method for determining frontal face pose
    Patent number: 8811744
    Abstract: A method for determining a frontal face pose by using the symmetry of a face including detecting a face region in an image, detecting an eye region in the detected face region, normalizing the face region, analyzing the symmetry in the normalized face region, and determining whether a face pose is a frontal face pose based on an analysis of the symmetry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Tae-Hwa Hong, Young-Min Jeong, Joo-Young Son, Chang-Han Kim, Sung-Dae Cho