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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.
Alphabet Inc.’s Nest Labs in September announced a doorbell equipped with a Qualcomm Inc. chip, a video camera and facial-recognition software that can send an alert to a Nest mobile app if
