G06V 40/178
Estimating age from face image
Official title: {estimating age from face image; using age information for improving recognition}
G06V40/178 (Estimating age from face image) appears on 345 US grants and 485 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06V- Granted patents
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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.
Recent patents
- Method and apparatus for de-identifying a face in an image in a natural way6 Oct 2026US 12,755,574 B2Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
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- Device-operation control system, device-operation control apparatus, device-operation control method, and computer-readable medium17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274187 A1NEC Corporation
- Face authentication method17 Sep 2026US 2026/0279128 A1NEC Corporation
- Depth camera and indoor location beacon data cross-pollination for user profile building3 Sep 2026US 2026/0260493 A1Dell Products L. P.
- System27 Aug 2026US 2026/0253414 A1SoftBank Group Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Face detection using templates479US 5,835,616 AUniversity of Central Florida · 1998
- Automatic feature detection and age classification of human faces in digital images408US 5,781,650 AUniversity of Central Florida · 1998
- Enabling persistent recognition of individuals in images159US 8,180,112 B2Eastman Kodak Company · 2012
- Method and system for enhancing portrait images that are processed in a batch mode133US 7,039,222 B2Eastman Kodak Company · 2006
- Classification of humans into multiple age categories from digital images127US 7,319,779 B1VideoMining Corporation · 2008