Apple Applies For Image-Based Authentication Patent

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Apple, in its never-ending quest to own every patent on the planet, has applied for another patent. This time around it is for an image-based authentication system but, does it really matter anymore what it is for? We all know it will be rubber stamped by the USTPO in record time.
 
We should trademark and patent our likenesses. That way, Apple would have to pay us to use our image (our likeness) for their authentication thinga-ma-bob. ;-)
 
If the patent office keeps giving them approval you'll see more of this. I'm sure other companies will catch on too. This maybe what takes the patent system down. We keep going this path, the lawsuits should start to increase greatly over the coming years and something will have to give eventually.
 
Might as well throw everything you can at the patent office and see what sticks. As far as Apple and patent approval goes, nothing surprises me anymore.
 
geeze that is just a process of image processing.... with swith&case statement.... that should not be patended..
 
Need a 6 strikes law for patents just like they want for IP infringement. If you apply for 6 patents of obviously existing technology you lose the right to apply for patents for 10 years... plus the patent attorney that OK'd them gets fired
 
Individual patent agents should be subject to a fine for every frivolous patent they approve. That just might curb this crap.
 
bloodhawke83 said:
ummmmmm, it already exists before the patent?
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Hasn't Android had this since version 4.0? The only difference I see is that this either displays a picture of the user prior to authentication, or you have to select the user before you authenticate, which is stupid. Now when you steal someone's phone you have photos of all of it's users. Or you could photograph the image shown on the phone, print it, then hold the printout up to the phone and authenticate it.
 
With this "first to patent" thing going on, it seems you can patent existing technologies more easily.
 
allenpan said:
geeze that is just a process of image processing.... with swith&case statement.... that should not be patended..
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Well, facial recognition is considerably more than that.

But this isn't about facial recognition itself, it's just an application of facial recognition. So yes this is a horrible patent and should definitely not be approved. Especially since Google's been shipping this for over a year.
 
Fooshnik said:
Hasn't Android had this since version 4.0?
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No, this doesn't display a picture of the user while waiting for the person's face to match. This authentication displays photos of objects the user knows about and asks for some kind of input describing/naming the objects in the pictures.
 
allenpan said:
geeze that is just a process of image processing.... with swith&case statement.... that should not be patended..
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I was going to say it sounds sort of like facial recognition or fingerprint or optical scanning:

Put in key and turn, place hand on surface, see if image of your hand matches dsatabase, if it does you get in
 
mope54 said:
No, this doesn't display a picture of the user while waiting for the person's face to match. This authentication displays photos of objects the user knows about and asks for some kind of input describing/naming the objects in the pictures.
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Sounds like flash cards you'd teach little kids about animals
Or math flash cards - show an image of an equation and give the answer
 
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