Patent ID: 9460338
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: G06K,G06T

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for computing, including detecting a face in an image, the apparatus comprising: one or more processors; cache memory; a lookup table of feature patterns to be loaded into the cache memory, during operation, for use to detect whether a face is present in an image, wherein the lookup table has a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns of feature patterns, including a reference row or column of feature patterns, wherein non-reference feature patterns are stored into the lookup table in accordance with relative connectivity of the non-reference feature patterns to reference feature patterns of the reference row or column of the lookup table; and a face detector to be operated by the one or more processors to detect whether a face is present in an image, that uses the lookup table of feature patterns loaded into the cache memory during detection for the face.