iPhone 8 will have Face ID, a facial recognition system that some analysts say will replace Touch ID in the future smartphone, but this is very unlikely. Face ID is a system that Apple has been developing and perfecting for no less than 3 years to be ready for implementation in the iPhone 8, according to a new patent discovered to be registered for those from Cupertino.
iPhone 8 will have a Face ID that is able to recognize the face of the owner of the terminal using a camera with special sensors that can perceive the depth of objects. We are talking about a frontal 3D camera that has laser and infrared sensors, which can perceive the depth of the face of users using the iPhone 8, thus having a higher accuracy than any other similar systems.
iPhone 8 has this Face ID developing since 2013, so for more than 3 years, Apple confirming this through the patent granted to it today. It describes in detail how Face ID works to recognize the faces of iPhone 8 users, this system being able to replace fingerprint reading in order to make the whole experience much more pleasant.
iPhone 8 - this is when Face ID was developed
The iPhone 8 would record 2D images of the user's face and combine them with information taken with an infrared sensor and a laser, to perceive the depth of the head and surrounding objects. Practically, the image combined with all these elements would prevent attempts to fool the iPhone 8 with a photo of the user, as the current facial recognition systems are fooled.
The iPhone 8 with a 3D front camera and these sensors could offer the most advanced facial recognition system on the planet, if Apple considers it sufficiently well prepared. All data regarding the recognition of the face of the iPhone 8 user is processed in the terminal, so a powerful processor is necessary, and in an enclave the authentication data could be safely stored.
"The authentication system may include one or more sensors operative to detect biometric information of a user. The sensors may be positioned in the device such that the sensors may detect appropriate biometric information as the user operates the device, without requiring the user to perform a step for providing the biometric information."
The iPhone 8 would have a Face ID so advanced that it could perceive the depth of the eye sockets, nose, cheeks, or chin, using all these elements for recognition. iPhone 8 could even recognize patterns of distinctive signs on our faces, all with the idea of offering an extremely secure method of saving data in terminals and preventing unauthorized access.
The iPhone 8 could only have Face ID instead of Touch ID, but this is a theory that seems quite improbable, considering that we don't know how secure facial recognition will be.
