Thursday, July 06, 2017

Apple's published US application 20170193282, Presence Sensing


The one published claim:

A method of operating a computing device to provide presence based functionality, comprising:
receiving at least one image at the computing device from an image capture device associated with the computing device;

performing a face detection routine on the at least one image to determine a first probability of user presence;

performing a motion detection routine on the at least one image to determine a second probability of user presence; combining the first probability of user presence and the second probability of user presence; and deciding if a user is present based on the combination of the first probability of user presence and the second probability of user presence.

**One should note a non-final rejection on serial no. 15/445,623 was issued on May 4 2017, specifically a 102(b) anticipation rejection over Raynor.

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