Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (PittPatt) develops reliable face recognition software for images and video…
The notice on PittPatt site says: Joining Google is the next thrilling step in a journey that began with research at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in the 1990s and continued with the launching of Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (PittPatt) in 2004. We’ve worked hard to advance the research and technology in many important ways and have seen our technology come to life in some very interesting products. At Google, computer vision technology is already at the core of many existing products (such as Image Search, YouTube, Picasa, and Goggles), so it’s a natural fit to join Google and bring the benefits of our research and technology to a wider audience. We will continue to tap the potential of computer vision in applications that range from simple photo organization to complex video and mobile applications.
Maybe this new shiny company in Google’s armour would become very handy with the new Google Plus Hangouts!
Most possible things that can come out of this acquisition are:
1. Use the facial recognition for Youtube videos
2. Photo tagging in to Google products.
3. This tech from PittPatt could get added to android (take a pic and search social profiles with Google 
)
4. More patents registered in Google’s name.
Maybe I’m watching too many sci-fi movies 
.. What do you think, is coming out of this new acquisition?
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