Apple is planning to increase the number of various sensors in portable devices
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Patent applications from Apple are becoming more ambitious. The Cupertino meant a lot of innovation to facilitate the use of mobile devices or equip them with additional features. Example - plan "to teach» iPhone recognize the owner by heartbeat. Now, Apple's desire and does eliminate the physical buttons from the surface of your gadget and make their management exclusively touch. This will be possible thanks to the new patent, Implies the introduction of additional sensors into the display (and even back) mobile devices.
Thus, a new idea is that the display iPhone / iPod / iPad will receive a number of additional sensors and associated control software. When the user is holding the device with one hand, the sensors determine that. As a result, all of the controls will automatically be moved to the opposite side of the screen, and a person will be able to manipulate the gadget free hand.
In the case of devices with very small displays (like the iPod nano) controls, you can move on rear panel - so users do not have to manipulate the player using the already small screen.
In addition to this new patent suggests the user definition of handprints and orientation lock the screen in the selected mode, whether landscape or portrait depending on the position of the device in hand. In the latter case, the gadget status to be determined even more precisely than with the accelerometer.
By the way, Apple has received a patent for this, so look for the early realization of the above ideas.