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Sony has developed the DSC-T70 and DSC-T200 Cyber Shot cameras with face-detection technology that examines a person’s facial features to determine the authenticity of his or her smile.

The Sony Corporation has employed Japan’s Omron Corp’s “smile check” software into the technology of the DSC-T70 and DSC-T200, which effectively analyzes facial features (such as mouth and eye wrinkles or lip separation) to determine when a subject is smiling and, when the smile-recognition shutter function is enabled, will only snap the photo when it registers a smile. According to Sony’s software, smiling can be set from a “slight grin” to a “belly laugh”.

In a group photo situation, the photographer has the option to select an individual to emphasize as the central figure, using the LCD panel and touch pen. Sony’s Product Development representative Akira Tokuse explains, “Using the smile-recognition shutter function selected by the touch panel, you can pick which of up to eight people is the key smile.”

The smile-demanding Cyber Shot DSC-T70 will, no doubt, drive some unhappy individuals stark, raving mad. I envision proud parents cooing over their newborn baby, with the camera trained on the baby from day one, determined to get the first smile on pixels, as it were. The Sony Smile Shutter cameras are going for about 40,000 yen or $350 bucks. Guess we’ll have to grin and bare it!

[via I4UNews]

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