FotoNation Showcases Its Biometrics, EIS and Advanced Face Analytics Solutions at Mobile World Congress

FotoNation Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tessera Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSRA), announced today that it’s demonstrating the company’s latest, advanced mobile solutions for enabling biometrics, electronic image stabilization (EIS) and advanced face analytics at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, February 22-25, 2016. With nearly two billion digital cameras and smart devices worldwide using FotoNation’s imaging technologies, FotoNation is a key enabler of the mobile market and fast growing emerging adjacencies such as the recreational drone market. In particular, the imaging capabilities of leading high-end smartphones and tablets in the market today are powered by FotoNation computational imaging technology and solutions.

At MWC, FotoNation is showcasing the following innovations:

• Advanced EIS Capabilities Enhance Image Quality
  FotoNation is not only making smartphones see more, but also enabling them to see faster and smoother images without any shaking through the latest computational imaging algorithms. The result is spectacular looking photos and videos from a user’s smartphone regardless of lighting condition and unwanted motion of fast-moving subjects without the need of a tripod. FotoNation is collaborating with leading mobile handset, video surveillance camera and drone manufacturers to deliver high quality, smooth imagery in any environment. FotoNation’s expanding portfolio of EIS software solutions and integrated system solutions based on a hybrid hardware and software implementation will be on display in the FotoNation MWC suite.

• Advanced Biometrics Capabilities Secure and Analyze
  The latest biometrics solutions for the mobile market will also be on display in the FotoNation MWC suite. From iris recognition to facial recognition capabilities, new smartphones are able to quickly and securely authenticate user ID where correct detection of the user is vital through its camera in less than half-a-second. These new features protect user’s privacy while protecting against ID fraud in banking, m-commerce transactions and access to subscription services. Additionally, biometrics can enable deeper analysis of who’s in the picture or video frame and what’s around them. With smartphones being an extension of the user and taken everywhere, there is an endless supply of photos/videos that are being captured. FotoNation offers a broad portfolio of advanced biometrics to deliver high security and advanced analytics.

• Advanced Beautification Capabilities Enhance Photos and Videos
  FotoNation’s fifth-generation of beautification algorithms retouches portraits and videos to create the best image. Advanced features can adjust skin and tone color, add make-up digitally, and enable real-time smart lighting and smart color to create perfect professional photos and videos every time. FotoNation’s growing portfolio of beautification features will be on display in the FotoNation MWC suite.

For more information on biometrics, EIS, advanced face analytics and other FotoNation’s solutions, please visit www.fotonation.com or www.tessera.com. For a technology demonstration at Mobile World Congress, please contact pr@fotonation.com.

About Tessera Technologies, Inc.

Tessera Technologies, Inc., including its Invensas, FotoNation and Ziptronix subsidiaries, licenses technologies and intellectual property to customers for use in areas such as mobile computing and communications, memory and data storage, and 3D-IC technologies, among others. Our technologies include semiconductor packaging and interconnect solutions, and products and solutions for mobile and computational imaging, including our LifeFocusTM, FaceToolsTM, FacePowerTM, FotoSavvyTM, DigitalApertureTM, face beautification, red-eye removal, High Dynamic Range, autofocus, panorama, and image stabilization intellectual property. For more information call +1.408.321.6000 or visit www.tessera.com or www.invensas.com.

Tessera, the Tessera logo, Invensas, the Invensas logo, BVA, FotoNation, the FotoNation logo, Ziptronix, the Ziptronix logo, FaceSavvy, FaceTools, FacePower, DigitalAperture, and LifeFocus are trademarks or registered trademarks of affiliated companies of Tessera Technologies, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other company, brand and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Safe Harbor Statement

This document contains forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ significantly from those projected, particularly with respect to the characteristics, benefits, and features of FotoNation’s technologies. Material factors that may cause results to differ from the statements made include the plans or operations relating to the businesses of Tessera Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”); market or industry conditions; changes in patent laws, regulation or enforcement, or other factors that might affect the Company's ability to protect or realize the value of its intellectual property; the expiration of license agreements and the cessation of related royalty income; the failure, inability or refusal of licensees to pay royalties; initiation, delays, setbacks or losses relating to the Company's intellectual property or intellectual property litigations, or invalidation or limitation of key patents; fluctuations in operating results due to the timing of new license agreements and royalties, or due to legal costs; the risk of a decline in demand for semiconductors and products utilizing FotoNation technologies; failure by the industry to use technologies covered by the Company's patents; the expiration of the Company's patents; the Company's ability to successfully complete and integrate acquisitions of businesses; the risk of loss of, or decreases in production orders from, customers of acquired businesses; financial and regulatory risks associated with the international nature of the Company's businesses; failure of the Company's products to achieve technological feasibility or profitability; failure to successfully commercialize the Company's products; changes in demand for the products of the Company's customers; limited opportunities to license technologies due to high concentration in the markets for semiconductors and related products and smartphone imaging; and the impact of competing technologies on the demand for the Company's technologies. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. The Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2014 and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2015, include more information about factors that could affect the Company's financial results. The Company assumes no obligation to update information contained in this press release. Although this release may remain available on the Company's website or elsewhere, its continued availability does not indicate that the Company is reaffirming or confirming any of the information contained herein.

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