Eastman Kodak, now in bankruptcy proceedings, today received a broad and potentially valuable patent— on facial recognition.
Citicorp owns a security interest in Kodak’s entire patent portfolio of 7,000 plus patents, aNewDomain.net has learned. Citicorp North America Inc. loaned Kodak 950 million dollars U.S. earlier this year — the patent portfolio is at least part of the portfolio and worth billions.
Check out this image from the Kodak facial recognition patent, which it filed back in 2008. That was just after it released a Kodak camera that performed rudimentary facial recognition.
Here is the front page of the broad facial recognition patent Kodak received today. Seems Google, which also received a number of patents today, will be interested.
In all, the USPTO issued Big Yellow 14 patents today. Another notable one is described as an “automatic method” of identifying the photographer based on how much he or she jiggles the camera. It then adde this information to the photo’s metadata, allowing easier sorting.
ED Gina Smith contributed to this story.
I wonder what this means for the Android app Visidon Applock?
Good question. Tom?
The other big Kodak news is it managed a small nuclear reactor in its basement in Rochester, New York. The company had nearly 1,600 grams of weapons grade uranium. Good thing they went into that good night peacefully.
Who else might house one?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-kodak-nuclear-reactor-20120514,0,5639531.story?track=icymi
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120511/NEWS01/305120021/Kodak-Park-nuclear-reactor?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1