According to the latest news from foreign media, Apple applied for five patents this week, showing the new features and technologies that Apple may bring to mobile phones in the future. Apple may give mobile phones external lenses.
According to foreign media reports DigitalTrends, this week, Apple has applied for a total of five patents, involving mobile phones, augmented reality development, sleep monitoring and other fields.
Although Apple does not necessarily turn all the technology patents into real products and technologies, these patents reveal a trend or future for the development of Apple products.
In the smart phone industry, external lenses are already commonplace, and for users who have special requirements for photography or video quality, they can spend extra money on a more professional optical lens for installation on their cellphone camera.
Apple applied for a patent titled 'Adapting Camera Systems to External Lenses'. As can be seen from the patent, Apple plans to add optical lenses to the smartphone camera in the future to achieve better image zooming and zooming options.
External lens there are some technical challenges, the external lens and the optical axis of the built-in lens must be strictly aligned.
It is still not clear what the exclusive benefits of the patent applied to Apple are compared to what is already available in the market.
In another Apple patent, the development team is prepared to make different areas of a display screen refresh rate, for example, in a game screen, if the background remains stationary, then Apple only needs action on the game characters Regional refresh screen, this technology will save the cell phone battery consumption.
In smart phone battery consumption, the display has become a big energy consumer.Over the last year, Apple in a new phone with OLED screen, lower power consumption than the LCD.This also helps Apple to solve its traditional mobile phone poor battery life The disadvantage.
The other two patents that Apple applied are related to sleep monitoring, such as the ability for Apple to monitor when users fall asleep by using electronic devices and cellphone sensors, and the system automatically adjusts for various subsequent alarms (wake up alarm, go to work alarm, etc.) based on how often they fall asleep.
It is reported that Apple had earlier acquired a sleep monitoring technology company, the future may be the introduction of appropriate technology and functionality of Apple.
Mobile health is one direction in the development of Apple's electronic devices. Apple has also incorporated a large number of health features in its handsets. Apple has also introduced health-specific development kit tools and is working with U.S. hospitals and universities.
Earlier, Apple also made significant adjustments to the positioning of the Apple Watch, is no longer a luxury fashion, but as an essential exercise of health monitoring tools for consumers, Apple also reduced the price, Apple watch sales rose sharply thereafter, Almost become synonymous with smart watches.
Another patent Apple applied for this week relates to augmented reality.