Apple, Google and Facebook are preparing to bring wrist-based input to market as one of the ways of assisting users control user interfaces for future eyewear. Facebook and Google are motivated to win this next wave of innovation so as to ensure that Apple doesn t dominate this new product category like they did with the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
On Monday Apple introduced macOS Monterey during their WWDC21 event with powerful new features with a few of them highlighted in our report s video. Today, USPTO published Apple s trademark filing for their new OS and more.
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a continuation patent from Apple relating to wearable electronic devices, such as AirPods Pro and smartglasses, that could produce haptic outputs that could be felt by wearers. More importantly, the haptics could provide users with a distinct directional sensation that would direct the user s attention to look in a direction in a virtual teleconference and beyond. The patent discusses the use of spatial audio in a video conference which was just introduced at WWDC21.
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Apple Patent Dives into Optical Sensing Cameras via Single-Photon Detectors Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) for Face ID & In-Air Gesturing
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple relating to Apple s 3D TrueDepth camera used for Face ID and to capture in-air hand gesture controls in the future. Apple is now in race with Google, Samsung and Microsoft to bring this feature to market on a variety of devices from Notebooks to VR headsets.
In late December 2018 Patently Apple posted a report titled Apple could be onboard the 2019 3D Camera trend for Smartphones that will introduce In-Air Gesture Controls. The report covered a new 3D camera module from Sony that provided the capability of adding in-air gestures controls for apps and games as noted in the photo below.