Apple was granted a new patent related to the iPhone today. The new invention can hide the handset, camera and head-up display under the edge-to-edge screen. This design is likely to be released in the second half of the year. The next generation iPhone. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office grants that U.S. Patent No. 5,543,364, entitled "Electronic Device Equipped with an Open Screen," covers a method by which small holes are worn on the screen of a device, and It's hard to tell by the naked eye. In this way, engineers can design a mobile phone or tablet to achieve a true edge-to-edge screen or "full" display.
Until now, the aesthetic design of smart phones has been defined and limited by their main function, the front screen. The traditional candy bar design led by the iPhone puts the screen in the front and center, and other supporting hardware is arranged around.
For example, the iPhone is equipped with a central screen. Sensors and physical buttons are placed on the "forehead" and "chin." Certain specific components, such as the front camera, light sensor, and distance sensor, can be hidden under a fast cover glass or jointly placed in the inactive part of the screen. Others like handsets and home screen buttons need to be accessible to the user unimpeded, especially Touch ID, meaning that these components cut out some space on the front panel.
As smartphones are becoming more and more compact, there has been a push to try to hide basic components beneath the active (or lightly lit) area of ​​the screen. However, like most ideas for high technology, implementing such a system is easier said than done.
Apple in its patent suggests installing sensors and other devices under a series of openings or through holes in the active portion of the OLED panel. These openings can be left empty or, if desired, filled with glass, polymers, permeable ceramics or other materials.
Positioning the sensor directly in line with the opening facilitates the collection of light, radio waves, acoustic signals, and the like. Microphones, cameras, antennas, light sensors, and other devices will have unimpeded access across the display layer despite the fact that the appearance is obscured.
Forming an opening between pixels indicates that self-emission display technologies such as OLEDs outperform conventional LCD structures that require backlight and filter layers. Depending on the application, the hole groups may be arranged in various shapes and may be larger or smaller than the underlying components. For example, the opening for a camera may be circular and only as large as the objective lens, while the sensor module may have a larger magnitude.
Or it is also possible that the opening itself has a varying shape and size, allowing installation of a secondary display.
Interestingly, Apple mentioned that this patented technology can be used for a built-in head-up display system. In some implementation cases, a window is created by providing one or more transparent areas at the front and rear of the device in which a transparent OLED display is embedded. When the user's eyes pass through these windows, they will see digital images overlaid on the real world.
If implemented on a future iPhone, the window-based head-up screen HUD may be Apple's first implemented augmented reality application. Apple did not mention specific mechanisms, but this system can theoretically surpass augmented reality and mixed reality.
For example, a rear camera can collect scene information and then use local or cloud-based computer vision assets to process the scene information. A digital image containing useful information about the user's surroundings can then be projected onto a real-world object that is aligned with the sub-display.
Whether Apple will adopt this technology on the future iPhone is still unknown, but it is rumored that Apple will release a full-screen special edition smartphone later this year. As for Apple's patented head-up window (HUD) part, it is rumored that Apple is actively preparing to enter the AR market in the next one to two years, but not by relying on a separate device.
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