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Article: Vodafone K.K. Selects Oki Electric's Face Sensing Engine for Face Recognition on Mobile Phones; Helps Improve Mobile Phone Security With Instant Face Recognition.
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- February 28, 2006
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TOKYO -- Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:6703) today announced that Vodafone K.K., a leading mobile operator in Japan and a subsidiary of Vodafone Group Plc, the world's largest mobile community, has selected Oki's face recognition middleware (1) for their mobile phones. The Face Sensing Engine (FSE) enables instant face recognition using the camera on mobile phones to restrict access to mobile phones. FSE will be embedded in the Vodafone 904SH (manufactured by Sharp), which is planned for launch in late April 2006 and future Vodafone K.K. 3G mobile phones to be launched in Japan.
"We are pleased to provide our middleware to Vodafone K.K. that can ...