G06V 40/174
Facial expression recognition
Official title: {Facial expression recognition}
G06V40/174 (Facial expression recognition) appears on 3,080 US grants and 4,376 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06V- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- 1,234
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Electronic device for detecting feature information from face and operating method thereof6 Oct 2026US 12,755,573 B2Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Method and device for interactive controlling on adult product based on multimodal model, and adult product29 Sep 2026US 12,746,176 B1Cravelle Ai Group Limited
- System and method for providing presentations to customers29 Sep 2026US 12,749,099 B2United States Postal Service
- Method for training face swap model, computer device, and storage medium29 Sep 2026US 12,749,157 B2Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
- Computer-based personalization of a virtual world collaboration environment29 Sep 2026US 12,749,274 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Companion animal biological information acquisition method and electronic device for conditionally detecting behavior information about person and biological information about companion animal together8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311506 A1Petnow Inc.
- Non-Contact Intelligent Health Monitoring Method and System Using DrAI Screen Technology8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311881 A1
- Action control system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295857 A1SoftBank Group Corp.
- A method, a computer program and an apparatus for adjusting a service consumed by a human, a robot, a vehicle, an entertainment system, and a smart home system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299676 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Method and apparatus for generating virtual expression, electronic device, and storage medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301286 A1Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for recognizing facial expressions and facial gestures in a sequence of images575US 5,774,591 AXerox Corporation · 1998
- Apparatus and method for controlling avatar using expression control point526US 9,298,257 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. · 2016
- Method of creating avatar from user submitted image518US 9,314,692 B22016
- Avatar-based video encoding509US 9,589,357 B2Intel Corporation · 2017
- Facial expression representation apparatus504US 8,396,708 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. · 2013