Apple is working on face recognition for iPhone and iPad

Apple is investigating whether face recognition via a front camera can be used to identify a user. It would allow for future iPhones and iPads can be entered, apps and settings to automatically adapt to personal preferences. According to a new patent application , which this week by the U.S. Patent Office USPTO published under the title "Low Threshold Face Recognition. It describes how a user could easily recognize, without heavy computing power. Several people can use a device like this, mainly in the IPAD can be helpful. For each user includes a personal profile with its own wallpaper, applications and settings. This profile is activated when the iPhone is picked up.






The face should be good to work with different lighting conditions, regardless of whether the device handling in portrait or landscape. The influence of light conditions to reduce distortions and biometrics, it will succeed to the right person to recognize. These are not so much a security measure, which the measurement should be 100% accurate, but rather a tool to personalize. It is given eyes, mouth or tip of the nose. Since little energy technology may face constantly active.



Apple had a patent in June 2009, but as always with patents is a long time before the content is published on the USPTO. As inventor named Robert Mikio Free. A year later, in September 2010, Apple bought a Swedish company that specializes in face recognition. The company called Polar Rose makes a product called Recognizr and would have purchased $ 29 million.