OKAO Vision Face Recognition Sensor

Juniper Foo | Apr 19, 2005

Here's a phone that recognizes you. At the recent Security Show Japan 2005, Omron showcased its OKAO Vision Face Recognition Sensor utilizing a camera-phone to scan a user's face before it would unlock the handset. The world's first face-recognition biometric software takes in the features of the eyes, nose and mouth, detecting 80 points on the face. Users snap a self-portrait with the phone's camera, which the OKAO solution converts into a face print. A retake completes the verification process. With the success rate tested at 99 times out of 100, this should reassure the ultra paranoid. Minority Report, here we come!

Image from Omron

Price: N.A.
Availability: Japan
Device: Biometric solution for phones
Basic specs: Symbian, BREW, embedded Linux, and ITRON OS compatible, face print takes up about 1.5Kb of space, about 1 sec processing time

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