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Hardware face recognitionHardware face recognitionPosted Dec 1, 2011 3:31 UTC (Thu) by ewan (subscriber, #5533)Parent article: Hardware face detection The OMAP4 face recognition driver was submitted by Tom Leiming, but was apparently written by Ming Lei. Is one of those names not simply an anglicised version of the other, making them actually the same person?
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Hardware face recognition Posted Dec 1, 2011 11:01 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
According to my local chinese person, most likely their chinese name is "Lei Ming", as "Lei" is more likely to be the family name (which goes first in Chinese, and many other east-asian cultures). "Ming Lei" then is also a westernised version of their name, with the order changed to our family-name last - to avoid the hassle & confusion east-asians have when they try to use their "native" name in the West, and "Tony" is a western name they've adopted, cause us westerners never seem to be able to remember chinese names.
Another name difference tween east-asia and here: they pretty much always use full-names. They don't drop family names when they call or refer to each other, as we often do - not even within families. I.e. there pretty much is no 'familiar' name. E.g. you pretty much wouldn't ever refer to "Lei Ming" of this article as just "Ming".
Hardware face recognition Posted Dec 2, 2011 19:59 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] My local Chinese person says his family members never refer to each other with their family name. He's from Shanghai. The parents are in their 70s; children in their 40s.
Hardware face recognition Posted Dec 6, 2011 20:13 UTC (Tue) by job (guest, #670) [Link]
I'm not so sure it's a good idea to extrapolate cultural tendencies like that. China is a continent, and I would expect regional differences to be just as large as between a Finn and a Greek for example (or a New Englander and a Mexian if you're so inclined).
Hardware face recognition Posted Dec 13, 2011 7:27 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
So my comment is both over-reaching in its claims and a bit wrong. ;) I should have restricted myself to saying that generally with Chinese names you should use the full name, and that it appears to me to generally not be the done thing to break it up and use just a portion of it as a familiar name, as you might in the west.
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