Apple's future iPhones & iPads could automatically personalize via face recognition
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[B]Using a forward-facing camera to recognize an individual user, future iPhones and iPads from Apple could automatically customize applications, settings and features to a user's personal preferences once they pick up the device.[/B]
Apple's concept was revealed in a new [URL="http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2011/0317872.html"]patent application[/URL] published this week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and discovered by [I]AppleInsider[/I]. Entitled "Low Threshold Face Recognition," it describes a low-computation solution for quickly and accurately recognizing a user.
The filing provides a simple way for multiple users to share a single device, like an iPad. Each user could customize their personal profile with unique wallpaper, applications and settings, and that profile would be immediately accessed once the iPad recognizes a user's face.
Apple's application notes that robust facial recognition systems that work in various lighting conditions and orientations can be taxing on an electronic device, requiring resources and draining battery life.
Its solution would reduce the impact of lighting conditions and biometric distortions on an image. The filing describes a "low-computation solution for reasonably effective (low threshold) face recognition that can be implemented on camera-equipped consumer portable appliances."
Rather than aggressively analyzing a user's entire face and using up time and resources, Apple's concept would rely on a "high information portion" of a human face. Potential high information portions could include eyes, a mouth, or the tip of a user's nose.
By recognizing the individual features on a user's face, the system could scale the distance between someone's eyes and their mouth. That distance could then be measured against the reference image originally captured by the user in order to confirm it is in fact the same person.
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Apple's application notes that its facial recognition capabilities could be constantly active due to lower power consumption. This means a user could simply point an iPhone or iPad at their face, without pressing a button, and have the screen automatically turn on and unlock the device.
This could be accomplished through an "orange-distance filter," which would capture the "likely presence" of a human face in front of a camera. This filter would also be used to detect a person's skin tone, and measure the distance of their face from the camera.
Once a user has been recognized, the facial recognition technology could not only grant them access to the device, but also customize its settings based on a unique user profile. Each user would be presented with a personalized configuration, as an iPhone or iPad would be able to "modify screen saver slide shows or other appliance non-security preferences," the application reads.
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The proposed invention, made public this week, was first filed by Apple in June of 2009. It is credited to Robert Mikio Free.
Apple was rumored in [URL="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/09/20/apple_acquires_swedish_facial_recognition_company_rumor.html"]September of 2010[/URL] to have acquired a Swedish facial recognition company, Polar Rose, for $29 million. One of the company's products, Recognizr, could take a photo of a user and recognize that same person when shown on video.
Reports have indicated that Apple has long shown interest in having its devices identify users with facial recognition technology and customize a device based on their personal preferences. In early 2010, before the iPad was announced, [I]The Wall Street Journal[/I] revealed that an early prototype of Apple's touchscreen tablet would use a forward-facing camera to recognize users' faces, allowing it to be one device [URL="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/20/apple_sees_tablet_as_one_device_shared_by_the_whole_family_wsj.html"]easily shared[/URL] by the entire family.
Apple reportedly experimented with the ability to customize the device, and have it automatically switch to a user's personal settings once they picked it up. One early feature included virtual "sticky notes" that one user could leave for another, and would be read the next time they picked up the iPad.[/release]
[URL]http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/12/29/apples_future_iphonesipads_could_automatically_personalize_via_face_recognition.html[/URL]
Interesting concept.
Android has facial recognition unlock.
It sounds like a good idea, but is terrible in execution, it could be unlocked by holding up a picture to the camera.
what the hell do they mean they patented this, my android already does everything that was described there...
[QUOTE=Zombii;33961521]Android has facial recognition unlock.
It sounds like a good idea, but is terrible in execution, it could be unlocked by holding up a picture to the camera.[/QUOTE]
they should make butt recognition, sit on iPhone, etcetc.
If it had two cameras (so as to get a 3D perspective) it would probably work well. Otherwise as what Zombii said it would be easy to fool.
[QUOTE=Antdawg;33961547]If it had two cameras (so as to get a 3D perspective) it would probably work well. Otherwise as what Zombii said it would be easy to fool.[/QUOTE]
Even then it'd be a bit bad to do.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;33961513]
Apple's concept was revealed in a new [URL="http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2011/0317872.html"]patent application[/URL] published this week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and discovered by [I]AppleInsider[/I]. Entitled "Low Threshold Face Recognition," it describes a low-computation solution for quickly and accurately recognizing a user.[/QUOTE]
So not only are they stealing innovations from Android, after suing people over the most generic shit because it's a similar shape to their device, but they're also patenting innovations from android?
This patent should NOT go through. I'm going to be fucking pissed if they sue people with something that they stole from Icecream Sandwhich.
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Didn't read that thoroughly, I didn't realize that it customized applications to different people for the same device, however It's still similar as hell the Ice Cream sandwhiches' method of facial-recognition device unlocking.
Will this system have issues with dark skin tones?
[QUOTE=Antdawg;33961547]If it had two cameras (so as to get a 3D perspective) it would probably work well. Otherwise as what Zombii said it would be easy to fool.[/QUOTE]
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The perfect crime.
[QUOTE=Fatman55;33961886][IMG]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_P3Hr_8huuUs/TZNaUcs_04I/AAAAAAAABQU/bI4UzWjZCL0/foil%20face%202.jpg[/IMG]
The perfect crime.[/QUOTE]
how the hell would you even get away with that though
[editline]30th December 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=_Twitch_;33961705]Will this system have issues with dark skin tones?[/QUOTE]
racist phone
It's going to turn out like that racist HP computer.
Android could easily do this using the facial unlocking feature but what's the point? If you have a phone, it's probably the case that you're the only person using said phone.
No no no, this can't pass. You can't patent something that is already in circulation and isn't even your idea. Apple is patent happy lately.
[QUOTE=J!NX;33961534]they should make butt recognition, sit on iPhone, etcetc.[/QUOTE]
they should make penis recognition where you just smack your cock onto the iPhone and shit.
What if you're a dead ringer for Hitler?
[QUOTE=Drsalvador;33963982]What if you're a dead ringer for Hitler?[/QUOTE]
Nothing because all it does is grant the user a unique profile and the ability unlock the device via face recognition.
they actualy trying to patent a low resource algorith/technique, not the face unlock idea.
[QUOTE=krazipanda;33961532]what the hell do they mean they patented this, my android already does everything that was described there...[/QUOTE]
This patent was filed in 2009, two years before ICS came out.
This seems like a nice little touch on the UI, not a big step in functionality.
Why people are bringing Android into this thread or bashing Apple I have no idea.
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Love the stick figures :v:
[QUOTE=PyroCF;33964351]This seems like a nice little touch on the UI, not a big step in functionality.
Why people are bringing Android into this thread or bashing Apple I have no idea.
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Love the stick figures :v:[/QUOTE]
Because apple.
My Android can do all that, it's time for Apple to get a taste of their own medicine.
[QUOTE=Protection;33963958]they should make penis recognition where you just smack your cock onto the iPhone and shit.[/QUOTE]
Well Apple is a giant cock block so hey maybe
then again what about black cock and microcock? Might not see it.
[QUOTE=PyroCF;33964351]This seems like a nice little touch on the UI, not a big step in functionality.
Why people are bringing Android into this thread or bashing Apple I have no idea.
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Love the stick figures :v:[/QUOTE]
Because it's Apple being dickheads patenting some technological concept so broad and general and the fact that it has been done hundreds of times before that it's ridiculous.
iOS? personalize? Ahahhahahahaha
You have only just been given proper wallpapers from oh so benevolent Apple.
Isn't that enough for you peasants?
[QUOTE=Protection;33963958]they should make penis recognition where you just smack your cock onto the iPhone and shit.[/QUOTE]
sexist phone
[QUOTE=Rocko's;33964680]My Android can do all that, it's time for Apple to get a taste of their own medicine.[/QUOTE]
No it doesn't. Face unlock yes but not the rest.
[QUOTE=PyroCF;33965008]No it doesn't. Face unlock yes but not the rest.[/QUOTE]
The rest has been done on third party Windows PCs.
[QUOTE=Alex_DeLarge;33965181]The rest has been done on third party Windows PCs.[/QUOTE]
They are patenting an algorithm. Read the god damn article next time, they are not patenting the concept of facial recognition.
[QUOTE=garrynohome;33965209]They are patenting an algorithm. Read the god damn article next time, they are not patenting the concept of facial recognition.[/QUOTE]
They're patenting the concept of using this algorithm to personalize a device based on facial recognition. Don't assume things you don't know.
[QUOTE=Alex_DeLarge;33963791]Android could easily do this using the facial unlocking feature but what's the point? If you have a phone, it's probably the case that you're the only person using said phone.[/QUOTE]
Are you trying to be stupid or are you genuinely illiterate?
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