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Face detection for video calls

  • US 10,303,928 B2
  • Filed: 11/29/2016
  • Issued: 05/28/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • accessing one or more frames from a video call, the one or more frames comprising a frame view containing a face;

    performing face detection to detect dimensions and a position of the face in the one or more frames, the video call configured to perform a cropping of the frame view based on the dimensions detected in the face detection and a centering of at least the face in the frame view based on the position detected in the face detection;

    determining that the face has shifted such as to be oriented to look at an area outside of the frame view and that the frame view has moved to include both the face and the area to which the face is oriented to look; and

    refraining from performing at least one of the cropping or the centering in subsequent frames based on the determination that the face is positioned to look at the area outside of the frame view and that the frame view has moved.

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