Patents by Inventor Kuan-Chung Hou

Kuan-Chung Hou has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for detecting focus of attention
    Patent number: 11793435
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for detecting the focus of attention. The method includes: obtaining the face of a person in the first image, as well as the result of facial recognition; determining whether the distance between the person and the target is within an effective attention range; determining whether the face is frontal; determining whether the effective attention period is not shorter than a period threshold; detecting the focus of attention for the person to the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kuan-Chung Hou, Bo-Ting Wu, Chian-Ying Li, Ming-Hsuan Tu, Chien-Hung Lin, Jian-Chi Lin, Fu-Heng Wu, Kai-Lun Chang, Tsung-Yao Chen
  • METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DETECTING FOCUS OF ATTENTION
    Publication number: 20220248997
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for detecting the focus of attention. The method includes: obtaining the face of a person in the first image, as well as the result of facial recognition; determining whether the distance between the person and the target is within an effective attention range; determining whether the face is frontal; determining whether the effective attention period is not shorter than a period threshold; detecting the focus of attention for the person to the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Kuan-Chung HOU, Bo-Ting WU, Chian-Ying LI, Ming-Hsuan TU, Chien-Hung LIN, Jian-Chi LIN, Fu-Heng WU, Kai-Lun CHANG, Tsung-Yao CHEN
  • LIVING BODY RECOGNITION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200104575
    Abstract: A living body recognition method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: providing a prompt information, wherein the prompt information is used to instruct a user to make a first action; capturing at least one image corresponding to the user according to the prompt information; determining whether a second action made by the user in the at least one image meets a specific condition according to the prompt information and the image; determining that the user in the at least one image is a living body when the second action made by the user in the at least one image meets the specific condition; and determining that the user in the at least one image is not the living body when the second action made by the user in the at least one image does not meet the specific condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Yang, Kuan-Chung Hou, Chian-Ying Li, Chang-Hung Wang, Bo-Ting Wu, Andy Ho, Szu-Chieh Wang, Tsung-Yao Chen