Patents on the soles of your shoes...: Oh, patents! Modiface Inc.

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Oh, patents! Modiface Inc.

If you would like to look into a mirror and edit your face and hair, then you might consider the Modface Inc Augmented Reality (AR) apps!

Modiface Inc offers AR applications using live video simulation, both for trying on cosmetics, and for skin analysis and recommendation of beauty care products.

The company develops and customizes its AR skin analysis and face simulation applications, designated Beauty AR SDK and Face AI SDK, on mobile or desktop platforms, for such large cosmetics companies as L’Oréal Vichy, Sephora and Estée Lauder. Android and iOS still-photo versions of the Modiface Inc technology are available independently. iOS11 will offer the live mirror Modiface AR apps.

Modiface Inc AR skin assessment and face simulation technology also has medical applications, for example, the visualization of planned plastic surgery.

The company was granted the following hyperlinked patents for various aspects of the Modiface Inc AR face simulation and skin analysis technology:

US9687155 – 06-27-2017 – System method and application for skin health visualization and quantification
US9275400 – 03-01-2016 - Method and system for simulated product evaluation via personalizing advertisements based on portrait images
US8910082 – 12-9-2014 - Method and system for modification of digital images through rotational cascading-effect interface
US8725560 – 05-13-2014 - Method and system for simulated product evaluation via personalizing advertisements based on portrait images
US8711175 - 04- 29-2014 - Method and system for simulating superimposition of a non-linearly stretchable object upon a base object using representative images
US8660319 – 02-25-2014 - Method, system and computer program product for automatic and semi-automatic modification of digital images of faces
US8620038 – 12-31-2013 - Method, system and computer program product for automatic and semi-automatic modification of digital images of faces
US8265351 - 09-11-2012 - Method, system and computer program product for automatic and semi-automatic modification of digital images of faces

The following applications were also filed at the USPTO:

US2016253713 (A1) ― 2016-09-01 - System and method for the indication of modification region boundaries on facial images
US2016154993 (A1) ― 2016-06-02 - Automatic segmentation of hair in images
US2014214553 (A1) ― 2014-07-31 - Method and System For Simulated Product Evaluation Via Personalizing Advertisements Based On Portrait Images
US20120299945 – 11- 29-2012 - Method, system and computer program product for automatic and semi-automatic modification of digital images of faces
US20080267443 – 10-30-2008 - Method, System and Computer Program Product for Automatic and Semi-Automatic Modification of Digital Images of Faces
US20070258656 – 11-08-2007 - Method, system and computer program product for automatic and semi-automatic modification of digital images of faces
CA2651539 (A1) ― 2010-01-18 - Method and apparatus for hair colour simulation