In one of Apple s XR Headset published this week we see a well thought out camera system. It s a clear project being that two different teams were assigned to explore it. The first patent that we discovered on a scene camera was published back in 2020. We posted a patent report on this titled " Apple Invents a Scene Camera System for a future HMD device that brings Vivid Imagery directly to the user s eyes." This week another scene camera related patent was published by USPTO.
Earlier this morning Patently Apple posted a supply chain report claiming that Apple s first iPhone with an under display Face ID camera was likely to surface in the 2025-2026 timeline. Coincidentally, Apple was granted yet another patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office regarding this next-gen feature that could do away with their Dynamic Island on a number of iPhone models.
On the last Patent Application day of the year, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to a possible next-gen Apple Pencil with built-in Optical Sensors used to sample both the color and texture of a surface.
Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to a new HMD camera system that includes a two-dimensional array of cameras that capture images of respective portions of a scene.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple today that reveals a unique lens system design well-suited to augmented reality head-mounted devices that includes a new lens system with Lenslets. This could possibly revolutionize lens systems for AR eyewear.