Google Granted Patent for Facial Recognition Unlock Feature

Today, the US Patent and Trademark Office officially published Google's granted patent relating to their "Facial Recognition" invention. The granted patent focuses on the facial recognition system behind Android's unlock security feature. Although the patent outlines a failsafe module or mechanism to ensure the system can't be fooled, it was proven to be easily fooled by those over at Phandroid.

Google's Facial Recognition based Unlock Feature Shown to be Easily Fooled on Samsung Smartphone 

 

  

 

For those wishing to review Google's 30 patent claims and specific detailing, see granted patent 8,396,265. Phandroid published their video in November 2011.