Inside Asian Gaming

IAG APR 2020年4月 亞博匯 92 JAPAN A n invisible enemy is currently depriving people of their daily lives and causing mass disruption to the global economy. We are facing a dilemma in which the more effective countermeasures to COVID-19 are, the more stagnant the economy becomes. And for the gaming industry, the virus prevents the one thing operators, suppliers and other stakeholders rely on above all else – the smooth flow of people. Ironically, a product that may help in enabling this very activity was released just last month by Japanese firm Cathay Tri-Tech, Inc, a subsidiary of Thine Electronics. The Thermo Camera System is a temperature sensor already deployed to a number of high-rise office towers in Tokyo and at the construction sites of major general contractors. The technology, which combines facial recognition and temperature detection, was developed by a Chinese AI startup, YITU Technology, which has forged a strong global reputation for its facial recognition technology.　 As a countermeasure to COVID-19, combining facial recognitionwith temperature detection can quickly weed out those with a fever. What makes all of this possible is two eye-shaped cameras – a full high-definition camera for facial recognition and a thermographic camera for measuring temperature that focuses on the forehead. The technology is even advanced enough to provide a certain level of accuracy in recognition when the target is wearing a face mask.