G06V 40/171
Local features and components
Official title: {Local features and components; Facial parts (eye characteristics G06V40/18); Occluding parts, e.g. glasses; Geometrical relationships}
G06V40/171 (Local features and components) appears on 3,140 US grants and 4,129 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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