Month: February 2024

Apple has been researching how to make privacy filters to prevent anyone but the user seeing what’s on their curved screen — but Apple has never made a curved screen.

You can read too much into Apple’s thousands of patent applications, but it’s unlikely that the company would research a technology with no intention of using it. The six credited inventors on a new patent application did not cook this up during their lunch hour.

That’s especially unlikely as the new application is “Privacy Films for Curved Displays” — and a version of it was already granted by the US Patent Office in 2023. So Apple is not only exploring the idea of curved screens, it’s iterating on the idea.

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Apple’s introduction of the notch in the MacBook Pro seemed like FaceID was imminent — but it has yet to appear. It’s clear, though, that Apple is still thinking about implementing it in the MacBook Pro, in the iMac, and possibly a display too.

Apple files hundreds of patents a month, so it’s not guaranteed that the patent titled “Light recognition module for determining a user of a computing device” filed in August 2023 will see the light of day. And, the idea of Face ID inside a MacBook Pro isn’t new.

Most of the patent text is a dry rehash of how Touch ID works. But, Apple has some interesting tidbits inside it’s newest patent on the subject.

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