Patent Document ID: 9405962
Application ID: 13904225
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for determining a facial emotion, in a video comprising a face with a facial artifact, the method comprising: detecting Action Units (AUs) in a first set of frames of the video, wherein the first set of frames of the video comprises the face with the facial artifact, and wherein each AU comprises a fundamental action of an individual muscle or group of muscles; analyzing the AUs of the first set of frames of the video, wherein analyzing the AUs comprises: determining frequently occurring AUs that appear in a larger subset of a sequence of frames of the video than other AUs, and registering the frequently occurring AUs as a neutral facial expression; registering, as the neutral facial expression, the analyzed AUs in the first set of frames of the video; predicting AUs in a second set of frames of the video; and determining the facial emotion, by comparing: the AUs in the registered neutral facial expression in the first set of frames of the video, with the predicted AUs in the second set of frames of the video.