Comments on: Apple’s patent application details ‘locking and unlocking a mobile device using facial recognition’

By: Regular Reader

Regular Reader — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:07:53 +0000

Then it becomes a feature. Device sharing for family members. Patent it.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:13:22 +0000

Ok. I kinda figured after I posted my dumb comment…haha

By: BA Guy

BA Guy — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:53:49 +0000

I have an identical twin. What will that mean to us?

By: Necron99

Necron99 — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:37:57 +0000

Pity the iPhone users whose faces are so ugly they break cameras.

By: MuppetGate

MuppetGate — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:30:06 +0000

The Apple filed the patent six months before Google, according to AppleInsider

By: Sparkw

Sparkw — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:23:05 +0000

If you read the article, you’d see that Apple applied for their patent six months before Google applied for theirs. So although Google has received a patent on its facial recognition Apple has not even though they applied first. Don’t know why that is.

By: botvinnik

botvinnik — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:15:00 +0000

just put picture of said iPhone owner on an iPad in front of camera…voilà!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:11:51 +0000

Is there only one way to do facial recognition? If there is, then it’s probably not the google way.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:09:47 +0000

It’s not the camera that does the facial recognition. No more so than your eyes doing the recognizing.

By: mossman

mossman — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:41:14 +0000

Just imagine the hijinks that ensue when your buddies “borrow” your phone after you’ve crashed on the couch at the end of a party…

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:40:14 +0000

Didn’t Phil Schiller state at the keynote that the front-facing camera was capable of facial recognition? Seemed to be a passing note but for whatever reason I swear I heard it. Perhaps it’s just for image apps or focusing…

By: anim8me2

anim8me2 — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:34:13 +0000

Yeah, even as an Apple fanboy I feel this is kind of odd unless the patent was applied for 3 to 4 years ago.

By: pdr400

pdr400 — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:27:53 +0000

Isn’t Google working on this also? I wonder who started first. Well, actually I don’t.