Apple’s current MacBooks are equipped with “touching” Liu Haiping, but they are not equipped with the Face ID facial recognition function on the iPhone.
Apple officials previously stated that due to the thickness limit of the MacBook Pro screen, it cannot be equipped with a Face ID module.
At present, a new patent shows that Apple has begun to place corresponding sensors in MacBook Pro, iMac and other devices, which is expected to bring Face ID recognition function to such devices in the future.
It is found that in Apple’s “optical recognition module for determining the user of a computing device” patent, a MacBook with facial recognition function appeared. Module ‘stores user’s biometric information’.
▲ Picture source: Patent map released by Apple Inc.
▲ Picture source: Patent map released by Apple Inc.
Apple stated in the patent that in order to prevent unauthorized users from accessing users’ sensitive data, Apple will integrate “systems and mechanisms for authenticating users” in its devices.
It is reported that the “light pattern recognition module” will be located in “a partition” of the device, which may be “adjacent” to the display layer or located above the display layer, which includes an emitter capable of emitting a specific light, and A sensor that can detect light reflected from objects is roughly the same principle as the Face ID sensor technology used in current iPhones and iPads.
Considering that the thickness and frame width of Apple iMac are actually enough to accommodate the FaceID sensor of the existing iPhone or iPad, Apple’s current “optical recognition module” patent drawing is more of a reference nature, but it does not rule out that Apple will add an iMac Upper bangs for the possibility of “Face ID” facial recognition.
