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Soon, make a face to unlock your Android phone
Google has filed a patent suggesting users pull a series of faces, like
sticking out their tongue or wrinkling their nose, in place of a
password to unlock their Android phones or tablets.
Google says
requiring specific gestures could prevent the existing Face Unlock
facility being fooled by photos, reports BBC News.
The document
- which was filed in June 2012 but has only just been published -
suggests the software could track a "facial landmark" to confirm a user
not only looks like the device's owner but also carries out the right
action.
It says examples of the requests that might be made
include, a frown, a tongue protrusion, an open-mouth smile, a forehead
wrinkle, an eyebrow movement.
It says the check would work by
comparing two images taken from a captured video stream of the user's
face to see if the difference between them showed the gesture had been
made.
The filing also notes several ways the software might
check that the device was being shown a real person's face rather than
doctored photographs.
These include studying other frames from
the captured video stream to check that the person had made a sequence
of movements to achieve the commanded gesture, and confirming all of the
frames actually showed the person's face.
In addition it says
the software could monitor if there were changes in the angle of the
person's face to ensure the device was not being shown a still image
with a fake gesture animated on top.
Such efforts might help address criticism that its current face detection software is insecure.
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