Patents In Facial Recognition (Video)

Facial recognition software is a technology that can detect and identify a human face by an image or by a video stream or a live stream through cameras. Though the term facial recognition looks fairly simple, it is not! The term facial detection and facial recognition are often confused as being synonymous and are used interchangeably. However, there is a major difference between the two. A facial detection program only detects a face whereas facial recognition detects a face as well as identifies the person.

Figure 1 – Shows the Feature Points of the Face.

The first semi-automatic face recognition system was developed by Woodrow W. Bledsoe under contract to the US Government. This system relied entirely on the potential of the administrator to identify and extract feature points such as eyes, nose, ears and mouth on photographs. This basic idea has been developed upon further by UTC Fire and Security Americas Corp Inc who have patented a "system and