Apple has submitted a patent that shines a light on how future displays will behave. This patent introduces a way to ensure privacy on portable devices by making the contents of the screen invisible to anyone who's not vertically looking at the device.
There's never a dull moment in the world of Apple patents. We've seen sneak peeks of many new pieces Apple kit in the past, and we've seen some things that have never made it into real world. Looking at the two latest patent applications from the boys in Cupertino, we're really not sure which category they fit into.
Apple today has been granted with a design patent for iPhone 4. Apple has been busy lately in safe-guarding the design and innovation of its products by taking legal cover of patent grant policy provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Just yesterday, through a patent, we found about Apple's secondary display that may be introduced in their upcoming iOS devices. Well, there's a new patent out already which highlights some of the details of the primary display of next-gen iPhone. The new improved display will be hybrid of e-ink and standard LCD.
With Nintendo bringing its 3D-equipped 3DS to market, the whole world is going 3D crazy. Umpteen Android devices from various manufacturers are also due to get the 3D treatment in the coming months, but according to AppleInsider, Apple has been looking at adding 3D photo taking capabilities to its hardware (iPhone/iPad) for some time now.
A new patent made public by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week and discovered by AppleInsider could hold the key to a new graphical interface for the way contacts and music are displayed on an iOS device.
After Motorola recently sued Apple over eighteen infringed-upon patents, Apple has delivered a serious counter-punch in the form of two lawsuits over six multi-touch patents which Motorola is infringing upon in nine different handsets.
Microsoft is taking legal action against the company behind the popular Android-based Droid handsets - Motorola - for infringing nine patents that the company is allegedly using without licensing in their phones.
Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen has sued 11 major companies: Apple, Google, Facebook, eBay, AOL, Yahoo!, Netflix, Staples, Office Depot, OfficeMax and YouTube, claiming that they have violated four different patent rights which his company Interval Licensing LLC owns.
Not so long ago, we covered about Apple’s rumored plans to launch a new iMac with a multitouch display which will run a iOS 4 layer on top of OS X to use touchscreen capabilities. Well it looks like we are finally going to see a touchscreen computer from Apple after all. A new interesting patent has just popped up which shows a touchscreen capable iMac dubbed as the “Apple iMac Touch”.
