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Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 16 March 2007
Imaging technology wins innovation award
FotoNation has won the DIMA Innovative Digital Product Award 2007 for its FacePro for Mobile Phones technology at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) show.
FotoNation an embedded imaging and connectivity solutions company for the digital photography industry, announced that it has won the DIMA Innovative Digital Product Award 2007 for its FacePro for Mobile Phones technology at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) show held in Las Vegas It is the second year in a row that FotoNation has been awarded the DIMA Innovative Digital Product Award
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 6 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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FotoNation FacePro for Mobile Phones is an advanced face-tracking product that is embedded in mobile camera phones.
The new technology finds and tracks human faces in the phone's camera during image capture preview enabling improvements to image quality and a new functional synergy between the handset and camera.
At the PMA 2007 demonstration of FacePro, faces were automatically extracted from captured images and seamlessly integrated with the address book on the phone for contact-list thumbnails.
Face thumbnails were then used for easy identification with caller-id screens and quick-dial menus.
In 2006, FotoNation leaped ahead of the industry being the first company offering face tracking solutions for mobile camera phones.
With performance rates comparable to the latest digital cameras, FacePro was demonstrated at PMA 2007 on Nokia's N-Series camera phones.
The demonstration detected and tracked 9 faces simultaneously at speeds of 30 frames per second.
"Mobile camera phones continue to be of increasing importance as consumer digital photography devices.
We have increased our investment and participation in product and intellectual property relevant to this market and are honoured to be recognised once again by PMA for our latest technological breakthrough," said Eran Steinberg, CEO of FotoNation.
From the hundreds of digital products on display at PMA Sneak Peek 2007, FotoNation FacePro for Mobile Phones was selected by a panel of digital imaging editors to receive the prestigious DIMA Innovative Digital Product Award.
The 11th Annual DIMA Innovative Digital Product Awards recognise products or services utilising new technologies and/or applications that make the product either distinct or the first of its kind.
The annual award is sponsored by the Digital Imaging Marketing Association (DIMA), a section of PMA.
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