Great idea! I'll +1 this one. There are several other instances where this would come in handy for me.
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New Apple iPhone Patent Applications Surface: Object and Facial Recognition, Messaging, Voice Modulation
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Great idea! I'll +1 this one. There are several other instances where this would come in handy for me.
Since they don't already have your photo from drivers licenses, passports, etc etc etc....
I've got a spare roll of tinfoil if you'd like a hat.Barnes and Noble's app does it with books too. Take a picture of a book and Barnes and Noble will give you information on it and let you know if they have it in stock and at what store. It's freaking cool.
Capitalisation? Really?
I wouldn't advertise.
as a proud grammar and spelling nazi i would love that
(and yes i know that proper capitalisation is an important part of correct grammar)
I wouldn't advertise.
That RFID stuff could be interesting and make my life a bit easier. I like going to an electronics store to look at some products I might be interested in. Once I decided for a model on display, I look it up on a search engine that gives me the cheapest price and buy it there. I tried doing that with my iPhone but it was too painfully slow to be enjoyable and I think the clerks will remember you if you search for the thing in front of you on amazon or something.
Lots of items in stores already have RFID tags to make keeping inventory much easier. I'd love to just stand between some boxes in the store and having my iPhone display the cheapest online prices of those products.
It's kinda cruel towards the store people but if I can find the same thing for not even half the price and a better return policy, I don't care. I especially hate it when you return a defective item at a store and they only give you store credit instead of an actual refund.
Back to the topic: I thought of using the iSight and face recognition for de-activating the screen saver a few years back. However, if your screen saver only activates when no one is in the line of sight, no one would ever see the pretty screen saver. Also, face recognition and general video stuff uses up quite some CPU cycles so I doubt it would save power. Eye tracking would be way cooler actually. Advertisers could make the ads pop up right where your eyes are looking at that very moment.
Lots of items in stores already have RFID tags to make keeping inventory much easier. I'd love to just stand between some boxes in the store and having my iPhone display the cheapest online prices of those products.
It's kinda cruel towards the store people but if I can find the same thing for not even half the price and a better return policy, I don't care. I especially hate it when you return a defective item at a store and they only give you store credit instead of an actual refund.
Back to the topic: I thought of using the iSight and face recognition for de-activating the screen saver a few years back. However, if your screen saver only activates when no one is in the line of sight, no one would ever see the pretty screen saver. Also, face recognition and general video stuff uses up quite some CPU cycles so I doubt it would save power. Eye tracking would be way cooler actually. Advertisers could make the ads pop up right where your eyes are looking at that very moment.
...Eye tracking would be way cooler actually. Advertisers could make the ads pop up right where your eyes are looking at that very moment.
SSHHHHH! Dood, what are you THINKING!? Don't give them any more ideas!
The voice-modulation thing could open the door to some pretty bad stuff though. Imagine being able to make your voice sound like anyone's. Now imagine you're a teenager. Yikes.
why does a patent request for the iPhone require page 1 news? I think this contributes to the mass speculation surrounding apple because unless you actually have real visibility into that company and their efforts, the rest is just a bunch of people on forums guessing what the heck is going on. Enough iPhone news already!
The problem is that a ridiculous iPhone patent that we will never see makes Page 1 but the iPhone being limited on upstream speeds because of GSM does not.
I saw an Asus laptop at Worst Buy that had a login system for Vista via facial recognition. Position your face in front of the laptop, it recognizes your face, and logs you in. Looked pretty cool to be honest, however at the same time very pointless.
I don't know what is wrong with me but I kept reading it as fecal recognition... not something I would want!
"Looks like you could use some more bran in your diet."
"Mmmmm Corn."
"Looks like you could use some more bran in your diet."
"Mmmmm Corn."
Facial recognition technology???
Oh great, now the government can scan millions of faces and track everyone by hacking into their GPS. Just brilliant. I can't wait to see how the American Civil Liberties Union responds to this one. What's next, full body scans? "The government has detected that you need to lose weight. Your debit card will no longer be able to purchase more than $5 worth of food each day...also, you were short by $2.35 on last years income taxes. We know this is your friend's cell phone, but we recognized your face."
Oh great, now the government can scan millions of faces and track everyone by hacking into their GPS. Just brilliant. I can't wait to see how the American Civil Liberties Union responds to this one. What's next, full body scans? "The government has detected that you need to lose weight. Your debit card will no longer be able to purchase more than $5 worth of food each day...also, you were short by $2.35 on last years income taxes. We know this is your friend's cell phone, but we recognized your face."
Make that at least 4-5 years for the US market. We are so far behind in telecommunications technology it isn't even funny.
Agreed. Especially with photos readily available from all these social networking sites.
Wrong. The AT&T is not. The technology is in use since many years at least here in UK not mention Asia.
I just don't understand why iPhone is not with video iChat implemented yet. And so many people waiting for it.
Dropped video calls are probably way more annoying that dropped phone calls. Don't underestimate the AT&T network in places like New York.
iChat has kinda failed because the video feature only works with other iChat users and usually does not work if you're using a router (which most people do) because it's very dumb at networking. It's however fantastic within local networks, where the iSight camera can really shine. Impress your friends with a 4-people conference on an HDTV. (I'm still looking for a compatible USB webcam by the way, PM me if you know one besides the old iSights).
The problem about mobile video calls is that you need a headset if you don't wanna annoy the people around you. The iPhone's speaker is just not loud enough to be used as a phone speaker, but luckily, the typical user got some earbuds around. Video calling, especially in the US, would probably cause more traffic accidents than SMS.
I often opt not to activate video when using Skype because I don't look pretty at that moment or haven't cleaned up the room. The latter can be helped by those video effects that replace the background with something else, but are very sensitive to lighting changes.
AT&T can barely handle normal voice calls, so I would expect the video calls to be very low quality and very high latency, think early 90's era webcam chat. It would work very well in Japan and a few western Europe countries, but the US are Apple's primary market.
Oh, there's one more reason against video chat, even over WIFI: battery life and heat. It's already bad as it is, but when it has to do heavy video encoding and decoding simultaneously, the battery will empty in no time and the device get pretty warm.
Like I said before...
http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
This is even more evidence to how a mini projector could be utilized. In combination with object detection and facial recognition, a projector will allow us not to just utilize the iphone's touch screen, but the objects themselves as a canvas and interactive device to obtain information.
http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
This is even more evidence to how a mini projector could be utilized. In combination with object detection and facial recognition, a projector will allow us not to just utilize the iphone's touch screen, but the objects themselves as a canvas and interactive device to obtain information.
Can't they do both?
Besides ... they did work on the battery -- 12 hours of talk time on 2G sounds great to me! Who talks on the 3G network? Why would you? Only switch to 3G when you need the net, dude and you've got tons of talk time!
From Apple's site
Power and battery
Talk time:
Up to 12 hours on 2G
Up to 5 hours on 3G
Standby time: Up to 300 hours
Internet use:
Up to 5 hours on 3G
Up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi
Video playback: Up to 10 hours
Audio playback: Up to 30 hours
I think is plenty.
Who on this GOD's SWEET EARTH votes negative in this story that is nothing but very intelligent patents exploring some wonderful options and uses for the iphone, even if you don't think they are worth their salt they are just patents why vote negative....
To the extent that 1/3 voted negative.
To this 1/3, you people have some issues to resolves.
Seriously. Heck, pm me your name and I ll send you a ten day ticket to the bahamas for crying out loud, you can bill it on me. So much I can't stand this absolutely unwarranted negativity....
To the extent that 1/3 voted negative.
To this 1/3, you people have some issues to resolves.
Seriously. Heck, pm me your name and I ll send you a ten day ticket to the bahamas for crying out loud, you can bill it on me. So much I can't stand this absolutely unwarranted negativity....
Iphone users will be the ones absored into Apples New World order. The Iphone will inject RFID tags into every iphone user worldwide. You have been warned