Future iPhone and iPad may have eye control

While everyone looks towards the next innovation looking iWatch Apple, there are much more interesting technologies being developed behind the doors of Cupertino labs. In particular it has been revealed that they are working on an advanced visual control system for future iPhone, iPad and almost any device company.

Apple is known more for how to use the technology so it invents. The example is the fingerprint sensor Touch ID. Not the first but has led the way it seems others will follow the same bag fabricantes.El can put other technologies that are on the roadmap for most manufacturers as indoor location for displays progress haptic tactile devices like goggles and smart watches.

Therefore, the fact that Apple are working on methods ocular device control is nothing new, remember that the Samsung Galaxy S4 already offers this functionality. However, in documents made ​​public by P atently Apple shows how from the Californian company want to take this much further in order to control not only mobile phones, but tablets, computers, game consoles and even cars even.

Troxler effect

And the problem you have to deal with visual controls is what is known as Troxler effect (or Troxler fading - Troxler's fading).Sure I have ever experienced and what happens when we stare at a point for a long time and the images become blurred around and even disappear. Do the test with the following image.

So we can stare at something without this occurs, the eyes make micromovements to change the cells of the retina that receive stimuli and so images appear crisp. In a visual control system, this is the big problem to deal with because, for simplify, the pupils do not stop moving and to associate a cursor movement, this position would be constantly changing.

Apple visual control goes a step further

Apple posed Progress in this direction is to provide its products from various systems, methods and devices and combine them to measure the movement of the eyes and the graphical interface of the system can interpret properly.

But the key Cupertino system is the "Countermesure Generator", the system would be responsible for compensating the Troxler effect by analyzing data from other sensors of the detector could be regarded as the facial recognition camera or an infrared sensor, and would also allow control over a greater distance when it is not possible to detect the pupil.

This system would, according to the patent documents, control any system function with the look, adjusting its precision to the millimeter and on any device.

But is it necessary visual control all functions? Galaxy S4 demonstrates its usefulness by applying it quite inteligetemente only certain issues like scroll web pages or video playback. But export to other functions beyond that would jump in accessibility for people with disabilities, is not to provide more accuracy and comfort touch control.

Will have to wait, but it seems that Apple is determined to equip its future devices of this type of control, given the detailed information offered and, above all, because it is the first patent that records of this kind .