Apple patents technology to create curved screens

Apple received a patent for "curves" touch and conventional screens. The patent describes a system that allows you to create curved glass, able to respond to the touch, while the image on the screen does not warp and is not distorted. Besides the obvious use in mobile gadgets, technology can come in handy in Apple products such as the Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad and other devices.

Apple technology is different from the methods used today production, which are often sensitive layer to a curved screen itself is flat, that leads to a decrease in sensitivity at the time when the human finger can "go" from it by bending at a remote distance than conventional planar screens devices.

The patent also includes a method of manufacturing the screen with varying surface curvature. In particular, he describes something similar to the bubbles, which can be, for example, be used as a analogue physical keyboard, which occurs on the screen surface together with the virtual image keyboard. This effect is also useful to display the various controls, such as volume or brightness, or add new input options, such as simulated mouse clicks on the screen is fully touch device.

Apple has nedelala no obvious steps toward devices with curved screen, unlike its competitors (in particular, LG and Samsung have already recently noted by the likes of smartphones). At the same time, the company has managed to create a certain veil of rumors around the screen with non-standard features. As recently as November, Bloomberg published a speculation that Apple will release an iPhone with a curved screen in 2014. And the fresh Patent message certainly gives more weight to such assumptions.

Advantages of the curved screen in existing devices market today seem, shall we say, questionable, but it is undeniable that Apple often manages to succeed where others fail.