Oki Electric Releases Image Processing Middleware that Supports Face Recognition for Use in Mobile Phones.

Tokyo, Japan, Oct 19, 2005 - (JCNN) - Oki Electric Industry began marketing Face Sensing Engine (FSE), an embedded mobile phone use middleware product for facial image processing based on face recognition, on October 18. The newly developed face recognition function requires only about 280ms (ARM9/100MHz), the industry's fastest, from image acquisition to referencing.

If an obtained image has some problems in processing, such as blinked eyes, the recognition process moves on to the following image in about 80ms. The system uses an algorithm that ensures operations in different brightness.

FSE also provides other functions such as face acquisition, which obtains areas including a face out of an image, face characteristics acquisition, which detects the locations of eyes, eyebrows, and mouth, and face characteristics following, which calculates changes in locations of these characteristics which are made due to changes in facial expressions.

Oki plans to apply this system to other embedded applications, such as games and user interfaces, aiming to ship 500 licenses over the next two years.

Source: JCN http://www.japancorp.net

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