Apple's Face ID technology in the iPhone X explained by KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo ahead of launch

Recent rumours and leaks around the next generation iPhone devices, set to launch on 12 September, has all but confirmed  that the new phones will be named as iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X. It is also rumoured that Apple plans to do away with the fingerprint sensor completely and replace it with a facial recognition feature called as **Face ID** . [caption id=“attachment_3972497” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] iPhone 8 render[/caption] According to Apple Insider, KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has provided  some insight on how this face recognition technology in the new iPhone X is going  to work.  Kuo claims that the Face-ID feature would be relying mostly on four components which will all be present in the in the cut-out bezel on the top of the iPhone. The four components will be a proximity sensor, a frontal camera, a light receiver and a light transmitter. [caption id=“attachment_4032075” align=“alignnone” width=“660”] Image Courtesy: Apple Insider[/caption] The depth of the information collected by the light transmitter and receiver would be merged with images clicked from the front camera to get 2D images. Facial recognition algorithms make this 2D image into a 3D image and the proximity sensor detects whether the face is too far or too close. Ming-Chi Kuo has also claimed that the iPhone X will be arriving in three colours of black, white and gold. However, the front of all the these phones are expected to be black in colour to hide the sensors present on the top bezel. A recent video had also surfaced earlier which revealed that the Face ID was very convenient in unlocking the phone and required only a one-time setup, which might enable it to authenticate transactions through Apple Pay.