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Apple going after face detection patent on iOS

by Mike Schramm (Dec 29th, 2011)

Patently Apple has a report on Apple's latest just-revealed patent application for a system that runs on iOS devices that would recognize user faces and their local presence (originally filed in Q2 of 2010, released by the USPTO this week). It sounds like the old Minority Report gag, where your ...

Face detection API found in iOS 5 (Updated)

by Dave Caolo (Jul 26th, 2011)

9to5 Mac has found references to face detection APIs in the current developer build of iOS 5. The iOS 5-exclusive APIs include CIFaceFeature for identifying a the mouth and eyes in an image of a face. Additionally, CIDetector is a resource within the OS meant to process images for the purposes ...

iPhoto '09 uses face detection package from Omron

by Robert Palmer (Jan 30th, 2009)

An intrepid tipster emailed us late yesterday, and described an interesting challenge: He figured that if Apple didn't develop iPhoto's face recognition technology themselves, who did? He disassembled the app using OTX, a developer tool based on Apple's otool, and found the areas of the software ...

Smile for the camera: iFace recognition for iPhone

by Michael Rose (Sep 26th, 2008)

If you have to be subjected to surveillance, identification and security profiling, might as well have a shiny iPhone in the mix to make the erosion of your privacy rights that much easier to stomach. That's the scenario now that Animetrics' iPhone facial recognition product, iFace, is in limited ...