Friday, March 4, 2011

OKI develops a sensor for detecting television age and sex of the viewer

TVs that are smarter every day is something we already know, but the latest invention of OKI perhaps even excessive by the possibilities that entails. This is a sensor, in principle designed for TVs, but adaptable to other devices, automatically detecting the approximate age and sex of the user in front.

The device uses a small camera attached to the corresponding facial recognition software to estimate how old the audience and whether you are male or female. The effectiveness of the invention is to be demonstrated, especially given the disparity between factions and body hair, for instance, Asian and European people.

So far the device has only been programmed to turn on the TV or pay depending on whether there is someone watching, but the idea of OKI is that the device can be as automatic iutilizado age restriction, or to customize advertising based the viewer. Given that this is only a camera and software, would not be surprising that Microsoft should take note of the idea for Kinect.

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