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Apple was granted a patent for Touch ID applied to a MacBook back in 2015. The focus of the patent was Touch ID and not the positioning of it which Apple wanted to keep secret until they released it. In October 2016 Apple introduced both Touch ID on a single key along with full Touch Bar. This week USPO published a new Touch ID related patent for MacBooks that reveals.
Future iPhones may deliver advanced audio due to a Specialized Coating that greatly improves Speaker Quality
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to audio loudspeakers and in particular, but not exclusively, to a coating that could improve iPhone and iPad Pro loudspeaker sound quality and to audio loudspeakers that use the coating in their back volumes to improve loudspeaker performance.
In Apple s patent background they note that loudspeakers typically include a back volume and a membrane or diaphragm that oscillates and emits sound when driven by an electromagnetic transducer. A variety of different forces act on the membrane while it is being moved, distorting its intended acceleration by the electromagnet and thus distorting the sound waves it emits. Reduction of these additional membrane forces leads to improved sound quality.
Apple reveals their work on a Dynamic Foveated Pipeline that Renders and Processes VR Headset images
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to systems, methods, and devices for rendering images for simulated reality with a varying amount of detail. More specifically, methods for processing an image in a warped space.
Apple s patent appears to have been one that they may have inherited initially when they acquired Metaio, leaders in Augmented Reality, hologram technologies and Thermal Touch. The lead inventor is noted as being Tobias Eble, Apple s Software Development Manager that came to Apple via the Metaio acquisition where he was the Director of Mobile development. Another sign it was a Metaio patent is that Apple cancelled the entire set of 34 original patent claims and replaced them with 19 new patent claims without the patent being a continuation patent. And thirdly, in most Metaio patents, they emphasize the t