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Google Patents Frowns and Winks To Unlock Your Phone

Posted by timothy on from the your-tic-is-your-password dept.

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."

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  1. This sucks.. by Hsien-Ko · · Score: 4, Funny

    ......for Botox users.

    1. Re: This sucks.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. :( *sadface* by nitehawk214 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is me frowning at your use of stupid patents.

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  3. Seriously? by sl4shd0rk · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  4. Re:I'm patenting the fart gesture by oodaloop · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  5. Re:fooled by video instead? by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

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