IPhone new patent face recognition automatic locking and unlocking

According to Beijing time AppleInsider reported on March 17th, the patent application materials the United States Patent and trademark office local time on Thursday showed that in the new Apple patent application using face recognition technology to automatically unlock iPhone, which indicates that it is still improving in the future can be applied in other biological safety technology of mobile phone.

Known as "the use of face recognition to lock and unlock mobile devices," the patent, apple is a patent in 2016 to obtain a copy of the sequel - itself is a patent in the 2015 sequel".

The core idea of this patent is that iPhone uses a front camera to detect and identify the user's face, if you find the face to see the phone with the owner's face the same, then automatically unlock the phone.

In the basic implementation of the patent, if iPhone in a certain period of time, the camera will no longer look at the user, the phone automatically locked. The reverse process is also possible, if the iPhone began to move, face recognition technology to detect the user's face, the user does not need to enter the PIN or Touch ID, the phone can automatically unlock.

The new patent is referred to the infrared sensor. Different from previous patents, the new patent lists infrared sensors and tilt sensors as part of the motion sensing system. Infrared sensors may be used to detect changes in the infrared light of mobile phone movement.

Apple face recognition patent map

Patent application materials also show that when the device is locked, some areas of the screen can display the camera image, the user's face must be displayed in this area can be identified by the face recognition system.

This is one of Apple's face recognition patents. Earlier this month, apple acquired an enhanced face recognition using depth of field information patent.

Allegedly rumored iPhone 8 will use face recognition technology. Different from the Patent Description of the use of the camera, rumors that iPhone 8 will use integrated 3D laser scanning module to provide face recognition function.

The patent application is September 26, 2016.

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