The iPhone will have facial recognition when it transforms into 007

The US Trademark and Patent Office on Thursday published the latest 33 patent applications filed by Apple, which has filed 55 patents as of July, with a third of the patents filed this month. The patents cover a variety of areas, and Apple intends to turn some of them into features in its popular iPhone and iPod touch players. Two of the most eye-catching of these patents are closely related to cameras: one patent is for object recognition and the other patent is for face recognition.