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Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 04, 2016
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Inventor:

Sharadh Ramaswamy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Reno, NV (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00288 (2013.01); G06K 9/00234 (2013.01); G06K 9/46 (2013.01); H04N 5/23219 (2013.01); H04N 7/183 (2013.01);
Abstract

Approaches are described which enable a computing device (e.g., mobile phone, tablet computer) to utilize one or more facial recognition techniques to control access to the device and to detect when artificial representations of a user, such as a picture or photograph, are being used in an attempt to gain access to the device. Evidence indicative of artificial representations may include lack of changes in facial skin color between multiple images captured by a camera, ability to track one or more features of the human face while the camera is rotated or moved, presence of secular reflections caused by an illumination device, absence of shadows in the image, and others.


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