A method for privacy-retaining face identification comprising dividing at least one input face into a first set of patches, providing an assortment of patch profiles for each patch in the first set of patches, each patch profile in the assortment being associated with a unique index thereby to define...http://www.google.com/patents/US20110026781?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20110026781 - SYSTEM FOR SECURE FACE IDENTIFICATION (SCIFI) AND METHODS USEFUL IN CONJUNCTION THEREWITH