Apple has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that many of its iPhone camera features, including Face ID, infringe on a series of patents owned by Gesture Technology Partners, founded by Dr. Timothy Pryor, the sole inventor of the five asserted patents.
Worldwide Marketing, Philip W. Schiller, explained Face ID during Apple’s September 12, 2017 event
Mike Peterson for AppleInsider:
The lawsuit, lodged in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on Thursday, claims that Apple is knowingly infringing on five patents related to mobile phone cameras.
Specifically, those patents detail technologies that can “assist a user to interact with their smartphone,” which includes unlocking a devices, taking images or videos, and providing other capabilities… The patents-in-suit are U.S. Patents No. 8,194,924, 7,933,431, 8,878,949, and 8,553,079. According to the complaint, a range of different Apple features are infringing on the intellectual property. That list includes Face ID, Smart HDR, picture facial recognition, and optical image stabilization, among others.
Interestingly, the lawsuit also states that Apple and Dr. Pryor had a previous working relationship. “Apple has purchased patents and technologies from Dr. Pryor in the past including his ‘multi-touch’ patent portfolio in 2010,” the patent reads.
MacDailyNews Note: Here’s the Gesture Technology v. Apple complaint:
Gesture Technology Versus A… by Mike Wuerthele
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After all these years Apple has had Face ID, they’re finally getting around to suing Apple. Crazy.
It’s a deliberate ploy. By waiting they can demand much more compensation from the huge sales.
Apple should be hit with a huge civil case for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act in its Nazi like shutdown of Parler, where all the Big 3 (Amazon, Twitter and Apple) all used their massive market power to destroy a tiny little company that they opposed simply because it dared to let conservatives speak there. Leftist thugs like the CEOs of these companies are incapable of dealing in the free exchange of ideas. These thugs are not capable of winning an argument so they resort to censorship and destruction of any person and any company who dares to THINK DIFFERENT. What a sad end to the greatness of Steve Job’s Apple.
How do you feel about Fox Business cancelling Lou Dobbs Tonight, its highest rated program, because they could no longer be a party to his promotion of conspiracy theories? Free speech may mean tolerating lies, but it does not require helping to spread them. Even Rupert Murdock apparently understands what you cannot acknowledge.
What do you feel about leftist censoring speech everywhere – Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, corporation are firing people for political ideas that are fully legal? Why is your Party now the party of censorship? Like Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany. Those are dictatorship. That is now the Democrat game plan. Why are you fine with that?
Nazis promoting nazism under the gist of free speech, saying censorship of nazi propaganda is akin to nazism. LOL.
Democrats believe in free speech. Now, there is a LOL!!!. Democrats believe in destroying the “opposition”. Just as Lenin and Obama. And John.
@Kent…you aren’t being censured here so stfu.
Cancelling doesn’t prove your point. Businesses and people everywhere are afraid of the backlash from the left’s shaming because of certain views. It’s happening everywhere, and often without logic.
Regardless of your position on what precipitated the cancelling and shaming, it should concern everyone…including you who I’ve never noticed admitting wrong a previously held opinion.
Per spreading lies, it seemed numerous programs on CNN and MSNBC were undeterred in massaging a Russian collusion story. Yellow Showers with your hotel? Have they been challenged, submitted a correction, or admitted a wrong? Cancelled? Funny.
Your inconsistency is consistent and notable…you admonish someone speaking out on a non-Mac opinion on one day and on another you stray off topic to correct without hesitation, as if the self-appointed Forum Guardian.
Reminder: this story is about Face ID. Where happened to your “stay on topic” standard?
I believe on staying on topic. I try very hard not to stray off topic before the thread has already gone off topic, at which point that is the topic. I also believe in not letting lies go uncorrected. You are proposing a double standard under which Trump cultists could post anything they like, but only their opponents would be bound to stay on topic.
Oh, I see. An “absolute” EXCEPT when you determine the “absolute” is no longer absolute. You are working with a nice mindset of mushy “absolutes”. Truth; when it suits your preference.
Trump cultists? Where did that come from? Throwing all into the same scorned name bucket when a thought/idea doesn’t align with yours? That reminds me of the Shame-Force of today.
Speaking for Txuser, are you?
You seem confused about exactly what free speech means. Another factor you seem to ignore is that those platforms you rail against are PRIVATELY OWNED. They are under no obligation to provide a service to anyone. Finally if you practise and spew hate, you also break the contract you accepted by using the service. And you can certainly get that Jobs would pint them fast. Parler shot themselves in the mouth by allowing and encouraging hate. So stop spewing disinformation and attempting to gaslight everyone. You can also thank your repub ‘leaders’ for granting businesses the rights of persons just so they can refuse service based on ‘religious grounds’. Reap what you sow.
Restaurants are privately owned. Are they allowed to refuse service based on race or religion or opinions? I guess you think that would be fine.
Um, what has this got to do with anything? Hate speech and inciting violence are quite different than refusing service based on race and religion or opinions.
Well, then the Democrat Party, which is full of hate speech and used the entire summer burning down cities, looting and killing people with its Brown Shirts ANTIFA and BLM thugs, clearly should be outlawed. The Democrat Party always indignantly accuses others (who are innocent) of doing the vile crimes it does all the time. Like racism, colluding with Russia, foreign influence on elections, being the party of “the rich” (just ask the Reddit GameStop crowd which party secretly helped Wall Street crush the little investor). Democrats lie, cheat, steal, murder, censor and then brag about their virtue. Communism does that to people.
@kent….exaggerate much?
Are you totally illiterate? HAGHO said “privately owned businesses are under no obligation to serve anyone”. Yes, you are unable to read and unable to form a coherent argument. I showed that in America private businesses are not allowed to discriminate. Apparently this is lost on Democrats. Well, Democrats are the ones who went to war to defend slavery and who formed the KKK, and who now say skin color is the most important defining characteristic, mocking the core belief of Martin Luther King.
So, Hagho, a restaurant is privately owned. You believe in America it should be able to exclude black people. Because the owner owns it and decides who to serve. I don’t believe this is legal in America. You Democrats are pure hypocrites with your TOLERANCE and UNITY lies.
Kent,
I’m not sure how things are in your country, but in America we have something called the Fourteenth Amendment. Section One guarantees that everyone under the jurisdiction of the United States will enjoy the same substantive rights and the same due process. Section Five gives Congress the power to enforce those rights by appropriate legislation, which includes the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Political views are not on that list of protected classes. Indeed, Section Three of the 14th Amendment explicitly authorizes discrimination against those who have engaged in rebellion or insurrection against the United States or given aid or comfort to the same.
There is no requirement that those who favor one political view must assist others in promoting views opposed to their own. That would fall afoul of the First Amendment. Arguably, Democrats cannot discriminate against Republicans simply because of their politics, but there is certainly no duty to assist them to achieve their political objectives.
You LOVE censorship. Like a NAZI. You can’t handle the truth. You can’t compete in the arena of ideas. All you are is a member of a criminal enterprise.
If you disagree with me, explain how I am wrong, rather than taking off on a ranting tangent. I am trying to “compete in the arena of ideas,” while you are refusing to do the same. It is not “censorship” for someone to decline parroting your views because they disagree with them. I might agree with you if you ever offered a coherent argument instead of a stream of insults.
Poor Kent…having a really bad day. Shocking, maybe even egregious ignorance on display with no mention of the Trump thugs attempting to destroy the seat of US democracy under the guise of a so called “stolen election “
I on the other hand am having a great day getting a NHS Covid-19 vaccination appointment next week.
Now that s a problem worth addressing when anti-mask and anti-vaxxer ‘thugs’ are interfering in the health of the nation by closing down a vaccination centre.
“You LOVE censorship. Like a NAZI. You can’t handle the truth. You can’t compete in the arena of ideas. All you are is a member of a criminal enterprise.”
Gawd!!! Not a single concrete thought or piece of logic in the whole thing. Just a string of name-calling and insults.
And about Parler… nobody needs to (or should) support the incitement of violence nor the planning of such violence.
Calling for the murder of people, politicians or otherwise, is way beyond the classic example where – no – you don’t have “free speech”… namely the classic “you can’t yell Fire in a crowded movie theatre”.
I’ll sit down for a beer and a good DISCUSSION with a CONSERVATIVE any day. But where the right wing has gone with all this is sickening beyond belief… e.g. the “Hang Mike Pence” or the proposals for a bullet in the head for Nancy Pelosi.
https://rumble.com/vdlebn-mike-lindell-absolute-proof-exposing-election-fraud-and-the-theft-of-americ.html
We should trust a guy who sells lumpy pillows on late-nite TV between the ads for psychics and sex aids? If all this evidence is so compelling, perhaps Mr. Lindell should have shared it with the lawyers who were running up a 1-60 record in litigation, mostly before Republican-appointed judges.
To “Gotcha” regarding the 2020 stolen election:
🚨China created fake U.S. driver’s licenses to enable tens of thousands of fraudulent mail-in votes for Biden in 2020. Previous FBI leadership withheld this info.
Biden “beat” Trump by less than 50K so-called “votes” in AZ, GA, WI to swing 2020 election.
https://tennesseestar.com/justice/patel-bongino-say-prior-fbi-leaders-hid-evidence-of-chinese-interference-in-2020-election/jtnews/2025/06/24/
Are there any technologies that Apple hasn’t been sued over? Apparently they have never actually developed anything ever.
This discussion is way off topic. Useless.
Texans must have it in for Apple.
In the Eastern District, they have it in for “elitists,” which includes folks with college degrees.
And Apple will loose this one too, it’s Texas…