April 20, 2005
Mobile Phone Reads Your Face, Predicts the Future
Zenitum Entertainment Computing, a Seoul based startup, announced Wednesday its new mobile entertainment service called “Mobile Face Reading” available on SK Telecom, reports Telecoms Korea
"Based on traditional face reading science, the service can read a person's fortune based on a photo taken with a cameraphone and uploaded on to the service via MMS.
Once the photo is uploaded, the system automatically detects and calculates facial features. This geometric information is fed to the fortune reader to get the final reading results.
Users can get also request “Whole Year Fortune,” “Romantic Relationship,” “Women-Only Fortune,” “General Everyday Fortune,” and “Erotic Forecasts.” With one more photo of your lover, the service will let them know whether or not they are made for each other."
Related - but on the level - not an entertainment service:
-- Omron Produces Face Recognition for Mobile Phones - OMRON has announced face recognition technology which can be implemented in PDAs, mobile phones or other mobile devices with a camera function, dubbed the "OKAO Vision Face Recognition Sensor."
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