Automatic cigarette machine vendors will measure the wrinkles, the wrinkles in the corner of his eyes, and sagging skin to assess whether the purchaser is old enough.
The minimum age for smoking in Japan is 20 years old and this is exploited by developing a company identifier system with the buyer's age novel way of studying faces.
Business is done over 570 thousand will disebarnya vending machines throughout Japan. The law requires that the machine should be able to ensure that the purchaser is old enough.
Purchasers are required to look into a digital camera connected to the machine. System built Fujitaka Co.. will compare the novel characters like wrinkled faces around the face, skull structure and sagging skin.
"We have more than 100 thousand faces data," said spokesman Fujitaka Co.., Hajime Yamamoto, as Reuters reported.
"With a face recognition system, provided little money and are old enough, you can buy cigarettes as usual. Tactic child without identification card borrowing can also be overcome," says Yamamoto.
Japanese finance ministry has given permission for the "smart card" that can identify the age, or "taspo", in addition to consent to a system that can read the age from the SIM card.
The Ministry had not permitted the face identification method because not sure of its accuracy.
Yamamoto said the system could recognize 90 percent of buyers properly, the remaining 10 percent into "gray areas", that is, they are "children who look older or adult child faced". Machine will ask them to insert the SIM card, to ensure that potential buyers age belonging to "gray".
Under-age smokers has decreased the number in Japan, but a health ministry survey in 2004 showed that 13 percent of the students and 4 percent of high school third grader smoking every day. Their ages ranged between 17 and 18 years.
* karodalnet.blogspot.com
