Chip companies are adding greater smarts to cameras, spurring a new generation of equipment that not only captures imagery but interprets and acts on what it sees. Such advances in computer vision—the ability to extract information from images—can enable, say, a network of security cameras to track a package’s movement. Or, in the case of Apple Inc.’s newly unveiled iPhone X, unlock a smartphone by recognizing a person’s face.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 04, 2017 11:00 UTC