Apple wants the iPhone to be able to detect eye problems such as myopia. The company has filed for a patent for “Myopia Diagnosis and Preventive Modularities.”
The patent filing relates generally to the eye health of device users. Specifically, it involves distance-related viewing issues of device users.
The patent filing involves a process that may include detecting, by an iPhone at a first time, a distance between a display of the user device and a user. The process may include determining contextual information corresponding to a state of the user device at the first time. The process also may include determining an eye health event associated with the first time based at least in part on the distance and the contextual information.
What’s more, the process also may include performing an action relating to the eye health event based at least in part on the eye health event and other eye health events that occurred during other times, following the first time. The process also may then include generating an entry in a health datastore in response to determining the eye health event. The entry may include information about the eye health event and the contextual information.
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