Biometric sensors, such as touch ID that recognizes us by fingerprints, are increasingly in more devices. Apple, one of the first companies to manage successfully This technology by including it in the iPhone 5s in 2013, you do not want your rivals to overtake you and today a license that would allow activate a «panic mode» making use of its fingerprint sensor.
The patent describes how a user could lock your iPhone using a specific finger that previously would have been configured as the finger that would activate this panic mode. For example, if we use the index finger, the iPhone would enter a mode in which it would allow access to the terminal, but not to personal data. This can come in handy if someone forces us to unlock our iPhone, something to which I do not see much sense, but it does not stop there.
Another function described by the patent that has been released today is that the panic mode would activate the iPhone camera and microphone and it would transmit the video and audio received to "emergency companies", who could use the information in the future and even notify a family member or friend informing them of the situation. They could also call the police, fire department, or an ambulance. Another use that these emergency companies could make would be to ask for help if we have had an accident, which would send our position to the emergency number of each country.
In order not to leave any loose ends, the patent also includes the possibility of activating different panic modes using different fingers. With everything explained, for example, we would use the ring to unlock the iPhone protecting our sensitive information, the middle finger (or middle finger) to start recording, the index to warn that we have suffered an accident and the thumb would unlock iPhone normally.
That a patent is presented does not mean that it will see the light, but I think that this should be included in the iPhone of the future. And to complete the package, it would also be interesting if they added functions that we can find in Cydia, such as not allowing us to turn off the terminal if we do not enter our fingerprint.
"We would use the ring to unlock the iPhone protecting our sensitive information, the heart to start recording, the index to warn that we have suffered an accident" ... The heart?
If the middle finger ... You know that since you were born you have two heart fingers, right?
4 heart fingers, those of the feet tb.
I think the patent is a very good idea.
Now, didn't I understand about the middle finger?!?! WTF bro ...
How much ignorance….
It is not ignorance, it is lack of knowledge :), this website has readers from various countries, many from Latin America and there it is not called a middle finger but a middle finger and something else, depending on the country.
Hello everyone. I feel the confusion. I have edited to put "middle finger (middle finger)".
A greeting.