An curved arrow pointing right. Apple just announced the iPhone X, complete with Face ID recognition. Face ID is being used to replace the 'Home' button on the iPhone X. However, during its big on ...

Entitled "Light Recognition Module for Determining a User of a Computing device", the patient talks about a biometric FaceID system that ... for gadgets that have not been launched, such as ...

Still, if you're wondering whether FaceID, because it's such a new technology, will work reliably or even at all, just know that facial recognition is not all that new and it's already been done well.