Using face detection technology, the 8-megapixel, DSC-T70 and DSC-T200 Cyber-shot cameras won't snap a high-definition picture until a selected subject smiles.
Even with more than a handful of people in a picture, a photographer can designate which face to focus on by touching an LCD panel with a special pen.
Credit: Sony
The DSC-T70 is one Sony camera
that recognizes smiles. "Using the smile recognition shutter function selected by the touch panel, you can pick which of up to eight people is the key smile," said Akira Tokuse who works in Sony product development.
"In a parents-and-baby shot, you could select the baby."
The "Say Cheese" technology has three setting levels, from a slight grin to a belly laugh.
Japan sales start next week and global shipments this month.
Sony's smile technology joins Japan's Omron, which developed "smile check" software that analyses happiness by facial features like mouth and eye wrinkles or lip separation.
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