Sometimes there are decisions of large companies that are not fully understood. One of them is why the Face ID on the new Macs that are coming to the market. A facial recognition that works perfectly from the iPhone X, and that incomprehensibly has not yet made the leap to the company's computers.
Ok you can unlock your Mac with Apple Watch, but the reality is that personally it fails me more than a fairground shotgun, and I have to end up pulling the password many times. And above, seeing the patent, it could be that because of the sensor for Face ID, the next Macs could carry the controversial notch on the screen like the iPhone. It will be that they have no place to house the camera in the upper frame. I said, I do not understand anything ...
First was the touch ID. It was introduced first on the iPhone, then on the iPad, and ended up on both the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air as well. Something similar is happening with him Face ID. It started on the iPhone X and already in the following (less in the economic range), and then jumped to the iPad Pro (although the standard range continues with Touch ID) and finally it seems that it will make the leap to the company's computers .
Apple has filed a new patent to house a sensor Face ID on a MacBook screen. It was time. This is the patent number 20200097747 of the United States, entitled "Light recognition module to determine a user of a computing device", known to all as Face ID.
The patent perfectly describes the necessary components and the way the system works (TrueDepth camera), exactly as Face ID does on Apple mobile devices that already incorporate it, and how well they are giving, both in security and in the low level of errors.
The possibility of notch is also specified in the patent. I hope it is to throw off the competition.
MacBook with notch
The strange thing is that it also points out that the sensors necessary for this function can be housed next to the display screen, or on top of it «may be a notch, a circle, an ellipse, a polygonal shape, a series of polygonal shapes, a curvilinear shape or the like ”, as one of the patent's epigraphs quotes verbatim.
I hope the company will simply put it on the patent to heal in health. The screen frame of a MacBook and not to mention an iMac has enough space to house the TrueDepth camera without the need for a notch, as you can already see in the iPad Pro.