Seller Cigarette Machine Technology

No indiscriminate people can buy cigarettes, at least in Japan. State "Sunrise" is a way of preventing children from buying cigarettes, one of which is proposed to use the automatic recognition system wajah.Mesin cigarette sellers will measure the wrinkles, the wrinkles at the corner of the eyes, and sagging skin to assess whether the purchaser is old enough.

The minimum age for smoking in Japan is 20 years and it used a company to develop a system of identifiers buyer age by studying facial features.

The effort was done to it distributes over 570 thousand vending machines across Japan. The law requires that the machine should be able to guarantee that the purchaser is old enough.

Buyers are required to look into a digital camera connected to the machine. System built Fujitaka Co.. will compare the characters facial features such as wrinkles around the face, skull structure and sagging skin.

"We have more than 100 thousand people face data," said spokesman Fujitaka Co.., Hajime Yamamoto, as reported by Reuters.

"With face recognition system, as long as it has little money and are old enough, you can buy cigarettes as usual. Tactic borrow a small child without the identification card can also be overcome," Yamamoto said.

Japan's finance ministry has given permission for a "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 did not allow facial identification method due to not yet sure of its accuracy.

Yamamoto said the system could recognize 90 percent of buyers properly, the remaining 10 per cent in "gray area", that is, they are "kids who looked mature or adult-faced child". The machine will ask them to insert the SIM card, age of the prospective buyer to ensure a relatively "gray".