About four months ago, Apple was rumored to apply for a new patent on its upcoming MacBook series. The new patent aims to install a Face identification system on the devices. This means, once the patent is approved and real, the new MacBooks won't be opened with typing password or Touch ID, it will be used through detecting your facial features. Here's how Apple will do it.
Apple MacBook says goodbye to Touch ID?
On July 24, The Verge reported that the new MacBook laptops will no longer have to be opened using passwords or even Touch ID. They will soon be accessed by detecting your whole facial features in a small camera installed in MacBooks.
MacBooks, just like iPhones, are important gadgets for Apple users. The company stated that there is more important info on a laptop than a smartphone. Especially now amid pandemic, the data coming from laptops usually contain the biggest out of all Apple gadgets.
"By performing these complex functions, sensitive data associated with these users may be gathered and/or stored by these computing devices," says Apple. "To prevent unauthorized users from accessing this sensitive data, these computing devices may incorporate systems and mechanisms for authenticating users."
We know what you're asking, "How the heck would Apple do it?" It turns out that the plan for the Face ID on MacBooks is not that new anymore. Four months ago, Apple Insider reported a filed Apple patent application.
The patent, titled "Light Recognition Module for Determining a User of a Computing Device," had its explanation on how the Face ID may work on the latest set of Apple laptops.
How will it be possible?
For those people still unconvinced with the new Apple project, here's how they may do it.
In an Apple Insider Youtube video of Andrew O'Hara, he explains how the MacBook face ID may possibly be installed on the laptop.
Just like on iPhone, the Apple Face ID on Mac will have the same infrared dots that will detect your facial features. By this time, the laptop will compare your facial features to the saved picture of the owner. Just by opening the device, the Face ID will begin its process.
The patent, however, has it's similar but kind of different explanation on how will it look like. The file says that the light pattern recognition module includes a light emitter that is capable of projecting a predetermined pattern of light (e.g., infrared light) and a light detector that is capable of detecting a pattern of light caused by the reflection of the predetermined pattern of light from an object (e.g., a user).
If this is how the Face ID will work on Mac, will you be ready to avail one?
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