Apple wants the Vision Pro to be able to monitor a user’s health as evidenced by a newly granted patent (number US 11961290 B1) for a “Method And Device For Health Monitoring.”
The patent generally relates to health monitoring and, in particular, to systems, methods, and devices for monitoring the health of a user in a computer-generated reality (CGR) environment. In the patent Apple notes that a person may sense and/or interact with a CGR object using any one of their senses, including sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell.
The tech giant wants the Vision Pro to be able to sense a user’s medical impairment by using its processor, non-transitory memory, one or more biometric sensors, an image sensor, and a display. The method includes detecting, based on data from at least one of the image sensor and the one or more biometric sensors, a medical impairment of a user of the Vision Pro from a plurality of potential medical impairments. It could even suggest remedies for an impairment.
The method, per the patent, includes selecting, from the plurality of remedies, a remedy of the medical impairment of the user. The method includes controlling the display to effect the remedy of the medical impairment of the user. For instance, it could remind someone to take their medication on schedule.
