Patently Apple has uncovered Apple's latest patent application, this time for a system that runs on iOS devices that would recognize user faces and their local presence. It sounds like the old Minority Report gag, where your iOS device would monitor its surrounding environment for faces, and when one gets close enough and is identified as yours, the device would unlock and open up for use. Apple's patent also mentions algorithms for identifying specific features of the face, such as the eyes and the tip of the nose, and even methods to deal with low-light situations and other criteria which would make it hard to do the identification.
Sounds like fascinating stuff.
