Facial recognition could be key to interacting with a future dual-screen device from Microsoft

It seems that facial recognition is here to stay. It has been Apple that with the iPhone X demonstrated the benefits of a system, Face ID, which although very effective, for many still does not offer the same benefits that it does offer the classic fingerprint sensor that had become so popular in our lives.

Actually, we're seeing facial recognition becoming on the spec sheet of more and more devicesFacilitating access to them is their main utility for now, since Microsoft has even more ambitious plans.

And as they tell us in Windows Central, Andromeda comes to light again, now with a new patent that relates the future (hopefully near) of Microsoft, with a new functionality that could be integrated into future developments.

Making use of facial recognition, Microsoft has developed a system that would allow volume control in a hypothetical device with two screens. We already see that it is not only ZTE or Samsung that work on this type of product.

In the patent, Microsoft would integrate two cameras, one on each screen, which would be in charge of detecting the position of the user with respect to themThis positioning would be used to, for example, lower the volume when we are not looking at the screen or modify the audio volume depending on the screen on which we are focusing our attention.

The patent also refers to the use of the central hinge, which we have already discussed as the protagonist of other developments. A hinge that could act as a volume control method on the screen Control methods that would seek to end the use of the classic buttons on the sides of the phone, for which which they would bet on offering a haptic response that would make it easier for the user to know that they have performed an action in the system.

Andromeda is for now a concept, something that floats in the air There are rumors, there is talk of patents that may or may not materialize in the reality. But today the truth is that we have nothing clear. We only dream of what can come and we only have to wait to see if it finally comes true.

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