Console for the new Apple TV can receive sensor Touch ID

New Apple patent, which only became known yesterday, indicating a possible appearance in the remote control from the next-generation Apple TV fingerprint scanner. This sensor can serve as the operating element exclusively for television features, and become part of HomeKit, tied to a set-top box.

The accompanying documents and images to an Apple patent, you can see how to work with the Touch ID set-top box of the new generation. After reading the fingerprint keypad will activate one of the few, not yet named functions.

Most likely, it will be possible to buy content App Store and iTunes without a second password input from the panel. The same sensor can identify a user and log on as that user. For the latter, probably, they will be assigned some of the settings such as the standard volume for each person.

If expectations are confirmed, and Apple TV will hub for HomeKit-devices, only one touch to the console will change the mode of operation of smart appliances in the house or room. It will change the temperature, adjust the brightness of light bulbs, and so forth.

Chance to see the announcement of the new Apple TV was still in the early summer, at the WWDC, but there is a prefix not shown. The following hypothetical date of occurrence of the device - the autumn. Prior to that time, Apple may sign number of contracts with broadcasters and run your service broadcasting, something like Apple Music.

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