Patent ID: 9262671
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: G06K

Claim Text:
1. A computerized method for detecting a known face within an image, the method being executed by a face-matching system and comprising: obtaining a first image of the known face; generating a facial template based on a facial region corresponding to the known face in the first image, said facial template including a plurality of facial image files; generating component templates for a plurality of subregions, each subregion associated with a facial feature within the facial region, said component templates each including a plurality of component image files; comparing one or more of said facial image files to a second image to identify a facial region in the second image matching a facial image file of the facial template with a confidence value exceeding a predetermined facial region confidence threshold; comparing one or more component image files for one or more of said component templates to the second image to identify a component region within the facial region of the second image matching a component image file of one or more of said component templates with a confidence value exceeding a predetermined component region confidence threshold; and detecting the face in the second image as the face in the first image when said matching facial region and component regions are identified, wherein said obtaining a first image comprises: