Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Differentiating real faces from representations
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Application No.: US14100704Application Date: 2013-12-09
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Publication No.: US09524421B2Publication Date: 2016-12-20
- Inventor: Steven James Ross , Brian Patrick Williams , Henry Will Schneiderman , Michael Christian Nechyba
- Applicant: Google Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Morris & Kamlay LLP
- Main IPC: G01C3/08
- IPC: G01C3/08 ; G06K9/00 ; G06F21/32

Abstract:
Facial recognition can be used to determine whether or not a user has access privileges to a device such as a smartphone. It may be possible to spoof an authenticated user's image using a picture of the user. Implementations disclosed herein utilize time of flight and/or reflectivity measurements of an authenticated user to compare to such values obtained for an image of an object. If the time of flight distance and/or reflectivity distance for the object match a measured distance, then the person (i.e., object) may be granted access to the device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150161434A1 Differentiating real faces from representations Public/Granted day:2015-06-11
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