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Eye Recognition Features may come with the next Samsung Smartphone?
Date:2013-11-29 View:
It never seems too early these days to make predictions on what features will be in the next flagship smartphone from Samsung Electronics Co.
While the company itself is still busy marketing its new Galaxy series, while some blogs have already talked about some new features that may come with the next generation Galaxy S smartphone - none of which Samsung would confirm, but one of them being an iris scanner.
This wouldn’t be the first time Samsung is testing the idea of linking human eyes with smartphone usage, as recent Galaxy smartphones come with software features that recognize a person’s eyes for adjusting the brightness of a phone screen or even for scrolling up and down a web page.
But a patent filing by Samsung with the U.S. authorities published earlier this month shows the company may be considering taking the technology one step further and use it for people authentication in Samsung devices.
Though the filing doesn’t go into specifics of how the technology can be applied in practice, it puts the technology in direct comparison with fingerprint recognition, which Apple Inc.’s new iPhone 5 came with earlier this year.
Written by by Min-Jeong Lee with a little modification