Future Vision Pros or Apple’s rumored smart glasses could have built-in “Facial Interface Having Integrated Health Sensors,” per a newly granted patent.
About the patent
The patent relates generally to a facial interface of a head-mountable device. More particularly, it involves a facial interface of a head-mountable device including a pressure sensor assembly for detecting biometric information from a user.
In the patent Apple says that recent advances in portable computing have enabled head-mountable devices (HMDs) that provide augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) experiences to users. The ever increasing complexity and functionality of these head-mountable devices encourages constant improvements to the electrical components and sensors of the HMD.
Sensors can be utilized on head-mountable devices for various purposes, such as detecting user information, biometric information, user identity, movement, location, environmental detection, health evaluations, performance evaluations, etc. An arrangement of sensors that are suitably integrated into the limited surfaces area and which comply with the material, structural and intended function of the sensor and head-mountable device is needed.
Apple’s patent involves making devices such as the Vision Pro less cumbersome to wear even while it adds features for measuring biometric info.
Summary of the patent
Here’s Apple’s abstract of the patent: “A head-mountable device can include a display, a facial interface attached to the display to contact a face of a user, and a sensor unit attached to the facial interface. The sensor unit can include a deformable pad that contacts a nasal region of the user, a channel defining an internal volume, and a pressure sensor in fluid communication with the deformable pad through the internal volume.”
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