Oki Face Sensing for Mobile phones

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. today announced that it has provided Pantech Co., Ltd., a major mobile phone company in South Korea, with FaceSensingEngine (FSE), Oki’s face image processing middleware to be used in their mobile phones. FSE is embedded into Pantech’s SKY brand mobile phone, “SKY IM-R100,” that was launched on August 1, 2006. “Our SKY brand mobile phones are known for their abundant functions using the camera, and we have been looking for an image processing technology that utilizes the camera as a human interface as well as for entertainment,” said Lee, General Manager, Product Planning, Pantech.

Pantech mobile phone – Image processing
E.J. Lee continued: “Oki’s FSE was a perfect solution as it enables us to offer various solutions using the camera. What is amazing about FSE is that it can be embedded into a phone with limited CPU and memory but still provide high-speed image processing.”

Pantech Sky IM-R100 mobile phone
SKY IM-R100 is Pantech’s first mobile phone to be equipped with Oki’s FSE. When taking a picture, the Face Sensing Engine automatically controls the camera direction based on the facial feature tracking function, and always adjusts the face to the middle of the screen. In addition, FaceSensingEngine can synthesize images in real-time synchronized to facial movements, and can save the result as a photo using the image synthesis function.