Apple Inc.

Rogue Capital LLC

Gideon Littwin

Steven Porter Hotelling

Jerrold Von Hauck

Moshe Laifenfeld

Lynn Richard Youngs

Ivan Krstic

Jonathan Pokrass

Anup K Sharma

Thorsten Gernoth

Feng Tang

Thomas P Mensch

Michael Ross Malone

Lucia Elena Ballard

Matthew C Waldon

Tal Kaitz

Petr Kostka

Andrei Kolin

Deepti S Prakash

Christopher G Zeleznik

Ziv Hendel

Eitan Hirsh

Etai Littwin

Lucie Kucerova

Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu

Kelsey Yukio Ho

Pavan Kumar Ansosalu Vasu

Adi Eckhouse Barzilai

Techniques are disclosed relating to biometric authentication, e.g., facial recognition. In some embodiments, a device is configured to verify that image data from a camera unit exhibits a pseudo-random sequence of image capture modes and/or a probing pattern of illumination points (e.g., from lasers in a depth capture mode) before authenticating a user based on recognizing a face in the image data. In some embodiments, a secure circuit may control verification of the sequence and/or the probing pattern. In some embodiments, the secure circuit may verify frame numbers, signatures, and/or nonce values for captured image information. In some embodiments, a device may implement one or more lockout procedures in response to biometric authentication failures. The disclosed techniques may reduce or eliminate the effectiveness of spoofing and/or replay attacks, in some embodiments.

Biometric authentication techniques

A system and method for generation of a facial model. The method includes analyzing, via machine vision, a plurality of multimedia content elements to identify a plurality of facial images shown in the plurality of multimedia content elements; clustering the identified facial images into at least one cluster, wherein the clustering is based on metadata associated with each of the plurality of facial images; and selecting, from among the at least one cluster, a representative cluster representing a face, wherein the facial model is the selected representative cluster.

System and method for generating a facial model

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Tel Aviv, Israel

Gideon Littwin