Apple's working on multi-user eye trackingWhat you need to know
Tracking a single user's eyes is already possible.
Tracking multiple users is more difficult.
Apple now has a patent for tech that can do it with a single camera.
And it uses just a single camera to do it.
Being able to track a user's eyes is something computers have been able to do for years, but when they try to track multiple pairs of eyes things start to fall down. Now Apple has been granted its very own patent for a technology that would allow a single camera to keep tabs on multiple people at once.
The patent, dubbed "Method for operating an eye tracking device for multi-user eye tracking and eye tracking device", was granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office recently. It carries patent number 10,416,764, but that isn't the interesting part.
Where things start to become interesting is the way Apple plans on recording each frame a camera sees and then examining whether new users are present. The technology will also identify the person at the same t...
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Apple's working on multi-user eye tracking
