This new patent is titled “Photo-Sensing Enabled Display For Stylus Detection” and indicates that the future Apple Pencil will not require charging or consume power, and users can still write and draw on the screen. , mainly relying on the screen to achieve the corresponding effect.

The patent application relates to an “optical stylus system” that primarily utilizes a screen to determine one or more of target or touch location, center point, hover distance, tilt angle, azimuth angle, and in some cases a stylus direction and rotation.

Apple specifically describes the stylus as passive, meaning it’s basically a stylus that requires no power. Instead, it reflects light back to the iPad or the device it’s used on, and the iPad does all the sensing optically.

Relevant screenshots attached as follows:

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While digital products are shrinking in size, users are increasingly demanding high-quality audio. A higher-quality audio experience often requires larger speaker components. How to reconcile the two has become a challenge for manufacturers such as Apple.

Apple explored a cylindrical corrugated MEMS structure in the patent, using an open cylindrical core that can be fluidly coupled to the MEMS speaker and installed between the front volume and back volume of the speaker.

Under the action of an applied voltage, the cylindrical MEMS structure can deform, causing the position between the upper and lower fixed edges to bend. These fixed edges are hermetically fixed on the upper and lower substrates to generate sound while preventing the air around the upper and lower fixed edges from escaping. vent.

The relevant design sketches in the patent as follows:

VIA: patentlyapple

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The full name of the patent is “Battery charging system and mobile and accessory devices”. Apple designs removable batteries for its Mac, Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, iPhone, etc. Users only need to replace the battery Modules can meet the flexible use needs of the equipment.

In the patent, Apple outlines modular removable batteries with different specifications such as A, B, C, and D. According to Apple’s patented cell part, a conventional rechargeable battery is used, but the outer layer is equipped with a dedicated interface and uses standardized connections. .

The patent also describes a wireless communication system between the battery and a charging station or console that can monitor and display battery power while enabling wireless charging, similar to how the AirPods battery is displayed in the control center.

In patent law terms, it appears that a universal battery standard would not only power a device, but also provide a Mac or other “host” with the information needed to check battery status. This could be similar to how an iPhone displays the battery level of its AirPods or AirTags, and would apply to any device using such a battery system.

More patent screenshots as follows:

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Apple said in the patent that bright ambient light may reduce contrast and dilute display content. In order to improve the contrast of the screen when there is sufficient light, Apple has built-in light-shielding elements similar to “louvers” in the screen, which can be static or dynamic (adjustable).

The blackout element is primarily an asymmetrical “louver” film, and one or more additional adjustable components are included within the screen to optimize the display based on real-time ambient lighting conditions.

The system can call the ambient light sensor to determine the surrounding ambient light level. Based on the detected ambient light level, control circuitry in the system adjusts one or more adjustable elements in the display.

The screen part is embedded with an adjustable diffuser, which has at least two different haze states. When the detected ambient light level is low, the adjustable diffuser can be in a high diffusion state to mitigate the screen door effect of the display. When detected ambient light levels are high, the adjustable diffuser can be in a low-diffuse state to increase the contrast of the display.

The display screen may include a tunable tone layer that has at least two states with different levels of transmission. When detected ambient light levels are low, the tunable tint layer can be in a high-transmission state to increase display efficiency. When detected ambient light levels are high, the tunable tint layer can be in a low transmittance state to increase the contrast of the display.

Attachment of the patent sketch as follows. The light-shielding element in Figure 3 can be a dark coating. The light-shielding element can only transmit 10% of the incident light and absorb the remaining 90% of the incident light.

Since ambient sunlight must pass through the solar suppression element twice before reaching the observer/user, this solar suppression element reduces the brightness of the reflected sunlight to 1% of the initial sunlight brightness.

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Both patents were filed in November 2023, and both patents are titled “Tools for installing Screen Protectors” (multiple tools for installing screen protectors).

The first patent number is 015042731-0002. Attached 4 patent pictures as follows:

The second patent number is 015042731-001. Attached 3 patent pictures as follows:

Apple also received four iPhone design patents. Two of the patents cover the iPhone 15 and two patents cover the iPhone 15 Pro.

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Apple’s new patent would use the display on the side of the device to display control buttons and user interface, in addition to displaying status information such as power and weather, and providing additional control functions.

For example, users can display the name and lyrics of the currently playing surface on the touch screen on the side of the iPhone, and support volume adjustment and song switching control. The patent sketch as follows:

In Apple’s patent illustration, a volume control icon appears on the side of the device, suggesting that Apple plans to further eliminate volume and other buttons from the hardware. The illustration shows how Apple integrates control and display elements into a curved design.

Rather than simply replacing the physical buttons on the metal sides of current iPhones with virtual ones, the new technology will allow the sides to become screens that can be reconfigured based on context.

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Note: The “red eye” phenomenon occurs because the flash axis of the flash is too close to the optical axis of the lens. When the external light is very dark, the human pupil will become larger accordingly. When the flash flash shines through the pupil, In the fundus of the eye, the densely packed micro blood vessels appear bright red under the light and are reflected back. The natural phenomenon that looks like “red dots” on the eyes is “red eye”.

Apple stated in the patent that it will introduce a spatial adjustment lighting curve based on the camera flash module based on the target area identified in the scene, aiming to eliminate or reduce the red-eye effect at the camera level.

Apple notes that in low-light conditions, the flash module can be used to illuminate the scene to facilitate image capture. During image capture, flash lighting may produce artifacts in the captured image, such as red-eye effect, flash reflections, etc. Flash modules would ideally be flexible enough to reduce these artifacts. Apple’s patent-pending invention aims to solve this problem.

In Apple’s patent example, it introduces a device with a flash module. The flash module includes a luminous body array composed of multiple luminous bodies, a lens assembly for imaging the luminous body array into an illuminated area, and a device for controlling multiple luminous bodies. A flash controller that emits light to produce light.

The flash controller is configured to determine that a portion of the user’s face including the user’s eyes is located within the lighting area, select a first set of light emitters associated with the eye portion from the plurality of light emitters, and select a first set of light emitters associated with the eye portion from the plurality of light emitters. A second set of light emitters associated with the area around the eye part.

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The patent is titled “Electronic Devices With Folding Displays Having Textured Flexible Areas.” The patent describes a foldable electronic device with a flexible display embedded in a foldable body and capable of bending along the folding axis. The surface of the screen is covered with a transparent glass cover. In order to allow the cover to bend when the device is folded, the patent proposes a process of etching elongated grooves on the glass cover to make the glass in this area thinner and thus Achieve bending. The grooves are filled with polymer material, which on the one hand smoothes the inner surface of the cover, and on the other hand the rough texture of the filler surface helps reduce light reflection.

The patent comes with multiple schematic diagrams, the first of which shows a foldable device that can be a mobile phone, a tablet, or a laptop. When users need to watch the content on the display, they can unfold it into a tablet form, and fold it for easy portability.

The patent also mentions that the polymer in the groove can be injected by liquid infusion and then cured by ultraviolet irradiation, heating or other curing processes. The polymer can be made of flexible materials such as silicone or acrylate. The rough texture on the surface of the cover not only helps to fix the polymer, but also allows light to gradually pass through the interface between the glass and the polymer, reducing light reflection.

Finally, the patent points out that the inner and outer surfaces of the cover can also be treated through a chemical strengthening process to form a reinforced layer that is more wear-resistant and scratch-resistant. For example, replacing sodium ions on the glass surface with potassium ions through an ion exchange process can introduce compressive stress to the glass surface, thereby improving its resistance to damage.

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In the newly approved fifth under-screen camera-related technology patent, Apple outlines new ideas for installing sensors or camera hardware on electronic devices such as iPhones and MacBooks.

In the patent, Apple divides the display into two parts – one with normal pixel density and the other with fewer pixels. The part with fewer pixels is called the “pixel removal region”.

There are transparent areas in this area just like windows, and underneath these transparent areas are face recognition or light sensors.

To achieve this, Apple uses a black mask layer with a grid pattern on the screen. This grid has openings, or “apertures,” that allow light to pass through pixel-removed areas. Apple has also added patches into these openings to control how much light passes through.

The patent describes how these patches can be strategically placed to reduce unnecessary light angles on the sensor. The patent also talks about how the pixels are arranged so that even if some pixels remain in the pixel removal area, the overall user experience will not be affected.

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The patent describes flexible screen technology that uses an array of pixels to form a display panel that bends along a hinge when the device is folded.

The display cover may be formed from a glass layer. Elongated grooves or other grooves parallel to, and overlapping with, the bending axis may be formed in the glass layer.

The grooves create flexible localized thinnings in the glass layer that allow the display cover layer to flex when the foldable device is opened and closed.

Apple places the polymer in the grooves and creates a rough texture on the inner surface of the thinned portion of the display cover, which wets the polymer in the grooves and helps reduce reflections.

Figure 1 of Apple’s patent shows device No. 10, which can be a mobile phone, tablet, laptop, etc.; Figure 2 is a perspective view of the electronic device, which is a portable electronic device with a foldable display. IT Home attaches pictures as follows:

Placing the device in a folded configuration in this way helps make the device more compact so it can be stored efficiently. When it is time to view the image on display #14, the device can be expanded around axis #28, placing the device in the expanded configuration of Figure 2.

The display can then be laid flat and the user can view a flat image on the display. The ability to fold the display onto itself gives the device the behavior of folding inwards. The display can be flexible enough to allow the device to fold outward and/or inward.

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