Tag archive: face

The United States Patent and Trademark Office is really losing it. The department is granting Facebook a trademark to the word 'face.' The social network already owns the word 'book.' Facebook received a Notice of Allowance from the USPTO, now all it must do is pay a fee and file a Statement of Use to obtain its trademark. Luckily the trademark has some limits. According to TG Daily, the trademark covers use of the word… Read More

Pentax has introduced three new digital cameras in its consumer-friendly Optio line of compact digital cameras, the Optio WS80, Optio E80, and Optio P80. The new offerings sport 10 and 12 megapixel resolutions, sizable LCD displays, face detection and image stabilization…and the WS80 is even waterproof to a depth of 1.5 meters (just about 5 feet) for capturing that summertime fun. First up, the Optio WS80 offers a 10 megapixel… Read More

Avid is previewing their new Softimage Face Robot at SIGGRAPH.  The new facial animation technology is meant to allow 3-D artist to achieve the same realistic facial responses found in real life for high-end film, post, and game projects. The Face Robot is built on computer modeling of the soft tissues in a human face.  On display are CG characters built to show the precision over facial details such as wrinkles, frowns,… Read More

NEC Corporation (NEC) and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) today announced that the MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) Committee has decided to adopt NEC and SAIT jointly proposed new face recognition technology for the upcoming MPEG-7 standard (*) to be published in “ISO/IEC 15938-3:2002/Amd.1.” in the spring of 2004. The MPEG-7 standard provides a set of standardized tools to describe content important for… Read More