Surely the most veteran in the Mac world will take their hands to the head since some applications have existed for years or existed for the use of the Mac through gestures. Well, it was not really all the control of the Mac and it was not what many we believed it was to be able to control the Mac through gestures, but the missing Control Air app, it was a first step.
In this sense and while that application was available on the Mac App Store, the Cupertino guys registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office, patent No. 9.002.099 for the gesture capture using an estimate based on learning of the hand and finger gestures.
This time the name of a company that Apple already bought years ago appears again whose safe name sounds like more than one: PrimeSense, responsible for the development of Microsoft's Kinect sensor. In this sense, adding this new patent does nothing more than add details in which Face ID technology and the TrueDepth camera could be implemented in Macs, adding unlock functions as well as adding gestures to perform tasks and this time for real.
We can never confirm anything about these patents registered by the Cupertino company, since we may never see the technology implemented, but we are clear that These patents are very valuable to Apple and it will not stop adding benefits regardless of whether or not it can be used in the future.