New Face Detection Auto Focus Technology Achieves World’s Fastest
Auto Focus for Faces
Company Website:
http://www.tessera.com
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- (Business Wire)
FotoNation Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tessera Technologies,
Inc. (NASDAQ:TSRA) and the leading provider of computational imaging
solutions for mobile phones and digital still cameras, and ALCATEL
ONETOUCH, one of the fastest growing smartphone brands in the world and
part of TCL Communication, the sixth largest† mobile phone
vendor in the world, have joined forces to take mobile handset
auto-focus (AF) systems to a whole new level of speed and quality.
Today, the companies announced that LifeFocus™, FotoNation’s
revolutionary auto-focus solution for mobile phones, has been
implemented in ALCATEL ONETOUCH’s latest premium smartphone, the IDOL 3,
which is expected to start selling in Europe in the second quarter of
2015.
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“The premium features of the IDOL 3 go head to head with the best in
class performance standard,” said Dan Dery, Chief Marketing Officer of
ALCATEL ONETOUCH. “LifeFocus excels in achieving a flawless experience
when taking pictures or videos. FotoNation has successfully leveraged
over a decade of experience in computational imaging, and we take great
pride in working with the best in the digital photography ecosystem.”
“Our partnership with ALCATEL ONETOUCH has allowed us to put game
changing AF technology, which exponentially enhances the photography
experience, in the grasp of the smartphone end user,” said Sumat Mehra,
SVP of Marketing and Business Development at FotoNation. “ALCATEL
ONETOUCH is driven by innovation and the desire to provide the best user
photography experience with its smartphones. This makes them a perfect
partner to bring our novel face-based AF technology to market. ALCATEL
ONETOUCH’s IDOL 3 is the first smartphone in the world augmented by
LifeFocus to achieve performance that is unmatched by any other
smartphone today.”
The vast majority of pictures taken on mobile devices contain people.
LifeFocus was built with the human face at its core. FotoNation’s face
detection and tracking technologies, already found in 60% of tier-one
smartphones, enable face detection auto focus (FDAF). As the foundation
of LifeFocus, FDAF works in conjunction with existing state-of-the-art
AF solutions based on contrast-, laser- or phase-detection, offering
unmatched face focus time and quality, even in low light conditions.
† Market Share Analysis: Devices, Worldwide, 3Q14,
Gartner, December 2014
Safe Harbor Statement
This document contains forward-looking statements, which are made
pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve risks
and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
significantly from those projected, particularly with respect to the
characteristics, benefits, and features of FotoNation technologies and
the use of such technologies in ALCATEL ONETOUCH smartphones. Material
factors that may cause results to differ from the statements made
include the plans or operations relating to the businesses of Tessera
Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”); market or industry conditions;
changes in patent laws, regulation or enforcement, or other factors that
might affect the Company's ability to protect or realize the value of
its intellectual property; the expiration of license agreements and the
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relating to the Company's intellectual property or intellectual property
litigations, or invalidation or limitation of key patents; fluctuations
in operating results due to the timing of new license agreements and
royalties, or due to legal costs; the risk of a decline in demand for
semiconductors and products utilizing FotoNation technologies; failure
by the industry to use technologies covered by the Company's patents;
the expiration of the Company's patents; the Company's ability to
successfully complete and integrate acquisitions of businesses; the risk
of loss of, or decreases in production orders from, customers of
acquired businesses; financial and regulatory risks associated with the
international nature of the Company's businesses; failure of the
Company's products to achieve technological feasibility or
profitability; failure to successfully commercialize the Company's
products; changes in demand for the products of the Company's customers;
limited opportunities to license technologies due to high concentration
in the markets for semiconductors and related products and smartphone
imaging; and the impact of competing technologies on the demand for the
Company's technologies. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on
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About FotoNation
FotoNation is giving life to computational imaging by merging technology
with emotion. With technology in more than 60 percent of global tier-1
smartphones, FotoNation develops technologies that serve the
computational imaging space for handsets and cameras, as well as the
automotive, surveillance, security, and augmented reality markets. We
create, innovate and deliver the next generation of computational
imaging algorithms. We engineer new ways to reach the highest possible
performance while keeping system requirements to a minimum. We have a
long history of innovating and advancing the state of the art in image
processing. More than a decade ago, we were the first to integrate a
computational imaging solution in an embedded mobile device. Today,
FotoNation remains the leader in computational photography and computer
vision. Nearly two billion digital cameras and smart devices are powered
by the imaging technologies designed by the sharp minds and passionate
hearts of FotoNation engineers. For more information visit www.fotonation.com.
About ALCATEL ONETOUCH
ALCATEL ONETOUCH is simple, unexpected, down to earth, irreverent and
colourful. We believe that what makes technology smart is what you can
do with it rather than what it can do.
ALCATEL ONETOUCH is a brand within TCL Communication, an international
multicultural company which designs, develops, and markets globally a
growing range of mobile and Internet devices. TCL Communication is a
public company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (2618.HK) and part
of TCL Corporation one of the largest consumer electronics companies in
the world.
For more information, please visit www.alcatelonetouch.com
About Tessera Technologies, Inc.
Tessera Technologies, Inc., including its Invensas and FotoNation
subsidiaries, generates revenue from licensing our technologies and
intellectual property to customers and others who implement it for use
in areas such as mobile computing and communications, memory and data
storage, and 3DIC technologies, among others. Our technologies include
semiconductor packaging and interconnect solutions, and products and
solutions for mobile and computational imaging, including our LifeFocusTM,
FaceToolsTM, FacePowerTM, FotoSavvyTM,
DigitalApertureTM, face beautification, red-eye removal, High
Dynamic Range, autofocus, panorama, and image stabilization intellectual
property.
Tessera, the Tessera logo, FotoNation, the FotoNation logo, LifeFocus,
FaceTools, FacePower, FotoSavvy and DigitalAperture are trademarks or
registered trademarks of affiliated companies of Tessera Technologies,
Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other company, brand
and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective companies.
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Contacts:
Tessera Technologies, Inc.
Robert Andersen, 408-321-6779
Executive
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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212-481-2050
Tessera@tpg-ir.com
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Source: Tessera Technologies, Inc.
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