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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 ...

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 ...