It is reported that the patent is Apple in late March 2015 submitted, Apple wrote in the patent description: Based on more than one user's positioning and gesture operation, the No. 10 device can adjust the 14 device screen (such as optimizing brightness, contrast and audio Etc.) as well as other functions such as turning off / on the device, etc. For example, device 10 utilizes a visual graphics sensor to perform related operations after one or more users appear in front of device No. 10. A visual graphics sensor collects the user Of additional information (gestures, user images in video conferencing, user-facing face detection data, etc.)
While all this is a mere speculation, the patent comes at the right time for Apple, and with the launch of the iPhone X, Face IDs are slowly becoming familiar to users and becoming as stable and reliable as the Touch ID. While we may not see this technology in the coming year, we are quite likely to see Face ID-enabled iPads, MacBooks or iMac desktops in the near future.