Apple Awarded Patent Detailing Facial Detection and Recognition System for Devices

[dsass600]

so im guessing if samsung sgs5 will have retina sensor to unlock the phone will be facing another law suit?

Android has had face unlock for a little over 2 years now buddy.

 

[Kwill]

Brilliant!

Sound like a spectacular idea. Can't wait to try it out.

 

[felixwcf]

Still living in 2010?

Soooo...facial recognition research, but we still can't run two apps at the same time on an iPad.

Now it can. Have to do extra works on the coding side. The purpose they do in this way is to save battery life, unless they made nuclear battery, which can stand for lifetime. Otherwise, stick to your real multi-tasking but half-day battery life android phones...

 

[Tech198]

Face recognition IS easier - I use on my N7 and *never* have to retrain it like I do for touch ID on my 5S (which I've had for a month and have had to retrain so many times I've lost count).

And for the people saying it can be fooled by a photo - no, it can't, if you turn on blink recognition.

ok.... but there is yet another problem.. they introduce neat features into any phone, but then you have an "option" to turn on by the user to prevent faking.

When will manufactures ever learn...

The same with any security.... the link is always brocken at some point down the line......

True, they like to make it easier for consumers, but they don't care about if it can fooled, period.... if manufactured cared, then they wouldn't even have an option to disable.

While inconvenient, its the only way to "full proof"

Do you think we'll ever get to this stage where there is no option ? aka Touch ID and no way to turn it off ? or face recognition and no way to fool it by "disable some Bink option" ?


It happens with UAC under Windows, MS gives the user convenient way to disable this "security" feature, Apple I'm sure gives you a way to disable root..... the list goes on...

What other mistakes have manufactures made here ?

 

[mentaluproar]

I wonder if it will work properly on black people. Remember Kinect?

 

[macUser2007]

Now it can. Have to do extra works on the coding side. The purpose they do in this way is to save battery life, unless they made nuclear battery, which can stand for lifetime. Otherwise, stick to your real multi-tasking but half-day battery life android phones...

This is absolute BS and FUD.

Do you even have an idea about what you are talking about?

Many of the Android flagships have better battery life: the LG2 for instance has just short of 7 hours, while the iPhone 5S as a tad over 5 hours. Keep in mind that the LG runs a bigger, higher res screen.

The iPhone 5S is a great phone, but its battery life is about average compared to most in the Android world. Plus Apple needs a larger (about 4.7") screen to compete in today's market. They'll have a larger screen next year, but will unfortunately have lost additional market share by then.

 

[Rogifan]

hmm seems dodgy ground to me, their are lots of face detection systems out there, event the PS4 has one with the new camera. Apple has not come up with anything innovative with this and I do believe Android devices have had face recognition for unlocking for sometime now, so Apple has copied the idea.

Will be interesting to see exactly what Apple believes they have exactly done to differentiate it enough from all the other systems and get them a patent.

This patent was filed in 2008 and just granted now. We don't even know if Apple will ever use it for anything or if they do, exactly how it will be implemented. Not sure what all the concern is.

 

[D-Dave]

That doesn't prove anything. What if a tech-savvy terrorist (like say Edward Snowden, or Julian Assange) hacks in to your Facebook or LinkedIn?

This technology will allow friendly governments to better confirm the identities of the users of the accounts they are monitoring.

I, for one, welcome this. With improved government supervision of internet use, we'll all be able to sleep a little more soundly at night.

Calling Snowden and Assange terrorists (Wiki) while at the same time promoting an system that sounds an aweful lot like Stasi (Wiki) on steroids...scary....very scary.

 

[Oletros]

That doesn't prove anything. What if a tech-savvy terrorist (like say Edward Snowden, or Julian Assange) hacks in to your Facebook or LinkedIn?

This technology will allow friendly governments to better confirm the identities of the users of the accounts they are monitoring.

I, for one, welcome this. With improved government supervision of internet use, we'll all be able to sleep a little more soundly at night.

Do you forgot the sarcasm tag?

 

[cclloyd]

They buy the Kinect company, and patent facial recognition. It means multiple users are coming and it will log in whoever based on who holds the device, just like Xbox One signs in whoever holds the controller.

 

[JAT]

Actually, for the security conscious person, it sounds quite useful.

Instead of displaying an incoming call or message to just anyone facing your computer / phone, it could check to see if the person was you.

If it's NOT you, it could just show a simple notification and refuse to do anything more.

If it IS you, it could go ahead and show the caller ID and/or the whole message.

The only thing my camera can recognize at time of a phone call is the inside of my pocket.

 

[kdarling]

The only thing my camera can recognize at time of a phone call is the inside of my pocket.

lol True! That messes up the idea a bit, doesn't it.

Of course, once you pull it out and look at it, then the phone can decide what to show.

The patent also applies to desktops where the camera and screen are always visible. But then, you can bring up the pocket-like situation of a closed laptop lid

 

[JAT]

Of course, once you pull it out and look at it, then the phone can decide what to show.

It would have to be pretty fast. Voicemail kicks in. I already miss enough calls when in sketchy reception areas. All these little details is probably part of why Apple hasn't implemented multiuser at all. I would like them to figure it out, though.

Your idea applies to fingerprint recognition, too. Could work.

 

[Ryan John]

This patent was filed in 2008 and just granted now. We don't even know if Apple will ever use it for anything or if they do, exactly how it will be implemented. Not sure what all the concern is.

More a patent for the Apple lawyers bag of dirty tricks I'd guess.

 

[thermodynamic]

I had a Lenova PC from Vista days that had this feature for logging in. I hope they get sued by Apple. Not for any patent infringement, but for the horrible implementation of it. Yikes, I turned that off on day 1.

Windows Vista = 2007.

Lenovo thus has a right to sue the thieving copycats.

More a patent for the Apple lawyers bag of dirty tricks I'd guess.

If you put any value in ethics, you wouldn't be grinning.

 

[Puddled]

This patent was filed in 2008 and just granted now. We don't even know if Apple will ever use it for anything or if they do, exactly how it will be implemented. Not sure what all the concern is.

The future says "hello"