It s Friday and it s iPhone 14 day! Apple s iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, Apple Watch Series 8, and the all-new Apple Watch SE land at Apple stores around the world. Our initial report covers 13 jumbo photos from Singapore, France and Beijing
Apple Reveals the ability of a future HMD to perform major Display Expansion Operations on a Mac, MacBook or TV
Patently Apple discovered a patent application from Apple made in Europe titled Wearable electronic device presenting a computer-generated reality environment. WIPO published the patent this week. The patent describes the process as a virtual display expansion operation that relates to a Mac, MacBook or TV etc.
Apple s summary notes that the patent covers an exemplary process for dynamically controlling the size of a display. A user wearing a mixed reality Head Mounted Device (HMD) could be viewing a display (Mac, MacBook or TV) and expand it as needed virtually.
Apple Invents an Advanced Ring System with Four Types of Functionality covering Cursor movement, Paint, Pencil & Trackpad Modes
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to an advanced smart ring system that could work with an iMac, MacBook, or iPad, especially an iPad Pro when connected to a Smart Keyboard. The ring works in four modes covering cursor movement, paint brush, pencil and trackpad modes.
Apple s patent relates to finger-wearable input assemblies and methods for using finger-wearable input assemblies (rings) for controlling an electronic device.
A cuboid or cylindrical housing of an assembly may define a hollow passageway in which one finger of a user s hand may be positioned for wearing the assembly, while other fingers of the hand may provide touch user inputs to various touch sensor input components provided on an exterior of the housing about the passageway.
Apple has Won a Patent for a VR Headset with a Relative Inertial Measurement System with Visual Correction
Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to a relative inertial measurement system with visual correction. Such a system is used to compensate for oculovestibular mismatch within a headset which could cause nausea when what s occurring in the VR Headset is not matching what s occurring in the real-world environment in respect to motion.
For instance, if you re playing a game in a VR headset while you re sitting in a passenger seat of a car or bus, an oculovestibular mismatch could occur when a vehicle turns and what you re experiencing in the game doesn t match up directionally. For many people, this will cause nausea. Apple s invention is to compensate for this mismatch within the headset.
Apple s First Industrial Augmented Reality Camera System Patent was published today
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple s first industrial Augmented Reality camera system that relates to a method of and system for projecting digital information onto real objects in a real environment. Apple describes projective AR applications that could be used for prototyping architectural design, car manufacture and more. Whether Apple will be able to use this invention in context to Project Titan is unknown at this time.
In Apple s patent background they note that augmented reality (AR) systems could enhance a real environment by directly visually augmenting the real environment by computer-generated digital information. For example, such digital information is virtual information for augmenting visual impressions of the real environment. Typical applications are known as, for example, so-called projector-based AR, projective AR or spatial AR.