Theodp writes "Want the latest pics of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie? Sarah and Bristol Palin? Prince Harry? Britney Spears? So do the Enquiring minds at Google! On Thursday, the USPTO published Google's patent form for Automatically Mining Person Models of Celebrities for Visual Search Applications, in which the search giant describes how it used spectral breakdown to construct a database of 'highly exact biometric models' to allow it to recognize the faces of 30,000 celebrities wherever they might appear. act in the patent drawings is Plot 104 of '141 images in Barack Obama's face model', which Google notes is much less 'polluted' than Plot 102 of '71 images in Britney Spears' face model.' Watch out, lion stalkers — there's a new kid in town!"

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