Enhancing Images Using Known Characteristics of Image Subjects

Patent №

US 8,525,847

Granted

2013-09-03

Filed 2009

Owner

APPLE INC.

Lab

AI components

3

vision · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12476181

A method performed by one or more computers programmed to enhance images, the method including receiving an image and a face region associated with the image, sampling pixels from the face region, generating, based on the sampled pixels, a face-region evaluation, identifying a modification to the image based on the face-region evaluation, and modifying the image in accordance with the identified modification.

VisionPlanningAI hardwareG06V 40/162G06T 5/40G06T 5/94G11B 27/034G06T 2207/30201

AI classification

Vision1.00
Planning0.82
AI hardware0.59
Knowledge representation0.15
Machine learning0.03
Natural language0.01
Evolutionary computation0.01
Speech0.00

Ownership

APPLE INC.

assignment · 234770801

Assignors

REID, RUSSELL, FAGANS, JOSHUA, CHERNA, TIM

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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