Meta files patent for AI facial recognition glasses that identify people around you and record automatically A newly published patent from Meta suggests smart glasses could recognize faces, detect laughter and more Imagine hosting a dinner party without stopping to pull out your phone. Later, your glasses present you with a collection of photos and video clips showing your partner across the table and your friends laughing together. That's the idea behind the system Meta has patented for it's Meta glasses. The patent filing describes camera-equipped glasses that use facial recognition, expression analysis and information about your relationships to identify the people around you and decide which moments you may want to keep. The glasses could even ask, “I’ve generated some highlights of tonight’s dinner party. Would you like to see them?” At a time when Meta is continuously under fire for it's "pervert glasses" the patent sounds convenient for some, but also a potential privacy nightmare. How Meta’s glasses could choose what to capture The patent, published Thursday and first reported by 404 Media, describes a system that looks for “points of interest” within the wearer’s field of view. At a dinner party, facial recognition could identify the wearer’s wife and place her in the center of the frame. Other guests could be cropped out or blurred in the background. The system could then analyze facial expressions. If two people start laughing, for example, the glasses could recognize that reaction and reposition the camera to focus on them. Who makes the final cut may depend on the wearer’s relationship with each person. According to the report, information from a user’s social graph could help the system determine which friends or family members are likely to be more interesting to them than other people in the room. Get instant access