Huawei recently launched the Huawei Mate 40 family, which unveiled the new EMUI 11 user interface with the new Eyes on Display (EOD) function. EMUI 11 sits on-top of last year’s Android 10. This is an advanced version of Always-on Display (AOD), which allows illuminating some LEDs so that you can show a small amount of information that you need to quickly access from the lock screen.
It mainly works on phones with OLED displays that allow information to be displayed on a black background, it practically does not consume a lot of battery. In reality, it turns out that the smartphone seems to be asleep, but at the same time it constantly maintains the display of the necessary data on the screen. For example, icons for missed call, time, and battery charge.
Huawei has shown off its own interpretation of this feature and naming it Eyes On Display. It does this by following the phone owner’s eyes using the high-tech front-facing camera that has a gesture sensor. The phone user will have to store a copy of their facial features on the phone and as soon as the user looks at the screen, the stored biometric information will show up on it, while the rest of the time the display “sleeps”.
Eyes On Display can technically work on smartphones that have a 3D camera with a depth sensor and a gesture sensor on the front panel. This means if Apple wanted they could even implement this. Most Android phones use simple 2D facial recognition to unlock phones. At this stage, this option will be exclusive to the flagships of the Huawei Mate 40 series, and it is not clear if it will appear later in the P40 or Mate 30 series.
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