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Apple applies for 'Face Unlock' patent - WTF

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    #2
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    If they get the patent they simply sue Android in every country in the world....simples.


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    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,550 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    It's how they do it that gets patented. They do it different and its better so its worth patenting.


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    NeitherJohn
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭NeitherJohn


    Kinect uses similar face recognition technology, albeit for XBox profile login and not an unlock type thing.

    This patent war is beyond a joke.

    Apple. :mad:


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    bd250110
    Registered Users Posts: 427 ✭✭bd250110


    tui0hcg wrote: »
    Are these guys for real?
    Has face unlock not been around for a while now and is also part of the latest Android upgrade?

    These Apple innovators are really getting paid well for doing sweet fanny adams
    http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/29/apple-applies-for-ios-face-and-presence-detection-patent/

    Don't suppose anyone bothered to read the article then? If you had you would see the patent was filed 18 months ago.
    As I read it, the concept of face unlock is not being patented, it is the specific technologies used in the Apple implementation that are being protected. It's like the old saying "more ways than one to skin a cat". Apple is not patenting "skinning a cat" they are patenting a method of skinning a cat. There is a difference.


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    BionicRasher
    Registered Users Posts: 2,811 ✭✭✭BionicRasher


    bd250110 wrote: »
    Don't suppose anyone bothered to read the article then? If you had you would see the patent was filed 18 months ago.
    As I read it, the concept of face unlock is not being patented, it is the specific technologies used in the Apple implementation that are being protected. It's like the old saying "more ways than one to skin a cat". Apple is not patenting "skinning a cat" they are patenting a method of skinning a cat. There is a difference.

    Yup read it alright but it sounds all to familiar. Apple come up with a major innovation (like a rectangular tablet with rounded corners - as if no one else had that before!) and then try to sue the ass off anyone else trying to 'copy' them

    They may not be trying to patent the 'Face Unlock' and may only be trying to patent their 'own' version but these patent wars are really pulling the p now. They need to sort it out.
    Original point is that this facial recognition has been around for a while now so what gives Apple the right to own it - even if they say its their own version. We all know what will happen once they get the patent they will try to get it banned from being implemented in an other hardware that may be in competition with them


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    WolfForager
    Registered Users Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭WolfForager


    Apple had a fair run at the whole innovating thing, now their stuck in an evolution and IP trolling loop.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Lenovo laptops have had this for easily a year or more, where it can use facial recognition to log into Windows.


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    OctavarIan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭OctavarIan


    They're not trying to patent ALL facial recognition :rolleyes:


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    #10
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    Granny Smith should sue Apple at this stage ffs.

    Apple just copy others peoples ideas and pass them off as innovative and magic.

    All Apple are doing with this patent war is trying to dam up the river. There is only so many dams you can build but the water will build up and always find a way through. Apple are just trying to buy time so they can catch up to everyone else because the writing is on the wall, get your act together or you'll be left behind.


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