iPhone 8 Facial Recognition Technology Detailed In New Apple Patent

It appears Apple is serious with launching a new iPhone installment with facial recognition capabilities. The Cupertino giant has just been awarded with a patent for an invention that involves face detection using depth information. U.S. patent 9,589,177 was granted to Apple by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday, and it is a patent that details how face detection or facial recognition will work on an upcoming device, which is very likely to be the iPhone 8. Based on this new document, Apple is working on a technology that would allow the recognition of faces in digital video feeds using depth map data and images of the scene or background. The depth map will help in plotting the coordinates of the human faces that will be detected at a particular location. A respective face detection window will then mark the human face.