Apple looks to protect IP on biometrics for vision correction and headset authentication

Apple has included facial recognition technology for the iPhone in one of its latest patents, which could potentially be used to help correct poor vision among users of its upcoming virtual reality headsets.

In the new tech, spotted by Patently Apple, an iPhone performs a facial recognition scan of a user with its optical sensor system.

This captures images using a “dot pattern” to create a biometric identity “depth map” of the face it is used on, or set …

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