"This was a weekend project to get my feet wet with Android development," he tells us, adding that initially the app was a much more ambitious project involving detecting smiles, and reporting back to the parent what the baby liked and disliked.
Furthermore, Smile Shot automatically triggers the TL34HD to take a photo only when the camera detects smiles on the subjects' faces, and Blink Detection will prevent a photo from being taken if the camera recognizes that a subject's eyes are closed – a useful feature as it's often difficult to distinguish closed eyes when composing a shot on an LCD screen.
Furthermore, the Smile Shot feature automatically triggers the TL9 to take a photo only when the camera detects smiles on the subjects' faces, and Blink Detection will prevent a photo from being taken if the camera recognizes that a subject's eyes are closed – a useful feature as it's often difficult to distinguish closed eyes when composing a shot on an LCD screen.
Furthermore, Smile Shot automatically triggers the SL310W to take a photo only when the camera detects smiles on the subjects' faces, and Blink Detection will prevent a photo from being taken if the camera recognizes that a subject's eyes are closed – a useful feature as it's often difficult to distinguish closed eyes when composing a shot on an LCD screen.
Aibo will be able to recognise its owner and run over to them, detect smiles and words of praise, and learn which actions please its owner.
In the works are more advanced programs that gauge the emotion of a person by detecting a smile or a furrowed brow.
The FE-370 features Smile Shot, which tracks your subject's face to detect a smile and automatically fires off three consecutive shots so you never miss that perfect smile.
She may look a little like Hillary Clinton wearing sunglasses, but I think I can detect a smile.
When he cracks, "You shouldn't wanna fight/ Unless you wanna fight/ For your life in a hospital, a hundred nights," it's possible to detect a smile beneath the sneer.
"Well, you'd charm many an endangered shrink with that one," she laughed, a flicker of amusement crossing her face as he left, and Dr Boyle realised this was the first time in six months he'd detected a smile.
One day, while I was taking him and his aide on one of our frequent and not-so-pleasurable pleasure drives along Long Island's Gold Coast, I detected a smile on his face.
