American Airlines Has Cameras in Their Screens Too

Re:American Airlines Has Cameras in Their Screens Too by robszumski on Thursday February 21, 2019 @03:11PM (#19220139)

United has several planes with what appear to be active IR LEDs in the same spot on the front bezel. Any idea what those are doing? Tracking empty seats? Movement for some reason?

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Re:American Airlines Has Cameras in Their Screens Too by objclxt on Thursday February 21, 2019 @03:33PM (#19220320)

It's for detecting when your hands move towards the display, and turning on LEDs in response (for instance, many in-seat monitors have a USB socket with a LED ring around it) - I worked on those units many years ago.

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Re:American Airlines Has Cameras in Their Screens Too by robszumski on Thursday February 21, 2019 @05:08PM (#19220986)

Pretty cool, I guess I never picked up on the behavior because I am mostly on my laptop.

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Re:American Airlines Has Cameras in Their Screens Too by snazz on Thursday February 21, 2019 @03:15PM (#19220180)

Delta does too. It appears it grows more intense the closer you get your hands to it, and the lights near the bottom of the screen turn on when your hand is sufficiently close to the sensor/LED thing.

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Re:American Airlines Has Cameras in Their Screens Too by baobrain on Thursday February 21, 2019 @03:21PM (#19220232)

Maybe it's a nice ease of access feature to turn the screen back on after it's turned off in the dark on the flight

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