Last Saturday, we posted a report titled "Apple has invented a sophisticated Home Surveillance System with face & body recognition streamed to an in-home HomePod+." Yesterday, Patently Apple discovered an Apple patent application filed in Europe that was about yet another sophisticated security camera system that is designed to monitor package delivers and or theft of packages delivered to a home or business.
Early this morning, Patently Apple discovered a patent application that Apple filed in Europe titled "Identity Recognition Utilizing Face-Associated Body Characteristics." The patent covers a Home surveillance camera system with indoor and outdoor cameras communicating with a person at home that someone is at the front or back door and showing images of the visitor or criminal on an iPad, iPhone or HomePod. Whether Apple intends to work with third party developers on this or is something that Apple is working on to sell directly in a store or part of a Home Service is unknown at this time.
According to Wikipedia, Deepfakes are synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else s likeness. While the act of creating fake content is not new, deepfakes leverage powerful techniques from machine learning and artificial intelligence to manipulate or generate visual and audio content that can more easily deceive. Yesterday, Apple was granted a patent for technology relating to deepfake photo and video manipulation
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to a completely new Home-based invention that primarily covers a new outdoor camera system that communicates to those in a home who is at the front door via a HomePod mini, Smart TV, iPhone, iPad and more. Apple s inventors are mostly from their machine learning and computer vision teams.