Google Patents Frowns and Winks To Unlock Your Phone

Excelcia writes "Users could soon be asked to pull a series of faces to unlock their Android phones or tablets. Google has filed a patent suggesting users stick out their tongue or wrinkle their nose in place of a password. Requiring specific gestures could prevent the existing Face Unlock facility being fooled by photos. The software could monitor if there were changes in the angle of the person's face to ensure the device was not being shown a still image with a fake gesture animated on top."

Comments

This sucks..

[Hsien-Ko]

......for Botox users.

Re:This sucks..

[Anonymous Coward]

Nicholas Cage, too.

Re: This sucks..

[Anonymous Coward]

The only problem is no phone will be safe from Jim Carey.

Seriously?

[sl4shd0rk]

I'm imagining a roomful of Google Glass testers who look like they have Tourrets.

Good.

[tool462]

Finally a use for patents I can support. This will prevent anybody else from implementing this incredibly stupid idea.

And on a side note, if Google did get this to work would they be able to have the phone automatically call 911 if you were having a stroke?

Re:I'm patenting the fart gesture

[oodaloop]

Would it work if it's just in the general direction?

Re:fooled by video instead?

[squiggleslash]

Let's hope nobody completely ruins Google's idea here by creating some kind of device you wear all the time that records everything you're looking at, allowing you to record someone's expression without them thinking twice about it...