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Cellphones learn to recognize their owners

Oct 19, 2005 — by LinuxDevices Staff — from the LinuxDevices Archive — views

Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. this week began marketing a technology that inexpensively adds face recognition to camera-equipped cellphones. Oki's “Face Sensing Engine” (FSE) “middleware” decodes facial images within 280mS on a 100MHz ARM9 processor, and can restrict access to mobile devices by recognizing their owners, the company… says.

Oki's FSE supports Linux and several other popular mobile phone operating systems.

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Cellphones learn to recognize their owners' faces


 
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