Camera Incubation News Today

Earlier this morning Patently Apple posted a supply chain report claiming that Apples first iPhone with an under display Face ID camera was likely to surface in the 2025-2026 timeline. Coincidentally, Apple was granted yet another patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office regarding this next-gen feature that could do away with their Dynamic Island on a number of iPhone models.

On the last Patent Application day of the year, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to a possible next-gen Apple Pencil with built-in Optical Sensors used to sample both the color and texture of a surface.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple today that reveals a unique lens system design well-suited to augmented reality head-mounted devices that includes a new lens system with Lenslets. This could possibly revolutionize lens systems for AR eyewear.

Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to scene cameras that use a series of mirrors that is able to bring a scene in front of the HMD closer to the users eyes to achieve a more accurate representation of the scene.