Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Apple's 3D recognition
patent New tech identifies tanks, faces, tumours and more Apple
secured a patent yesterday on software to create and identify 3D
models of faces, animals, aircraft, military vehicles and
tumours in one of the more unusual tech patents to be awarded in
recent months. This came to light after the US Patent and
Trademark Office  published a series of newly awarded patents.
Several other patents were awarded to Apple yesterday by the
patent office, including patents for video encoding, virus
scanning and a push notification system – but the 3D object
recognition patent is the most ambitious of the set. One photo
of a face could enough for the new software to create an
accurate 3D model of the person's head that could be used to
identify them, thanks to the technique which uses corners and
face features to recognise 3D objects. Several images or a short
film of a face would create a much better model. The 3D object
recognition uses corners to create 3D m