Future Mac & iDevice Displays may include Peripheral Display Regions that could display illuminated icons, flashing notifications & more
At a time when consumers are expecting thinner bezels on MacBooks and iPads, at least one R&D team at Apple is taking a contrarian position. Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple titled Electronic Devices Having Peripheral Display Regions. Future Mac and iDevice displays may include peripheral display regions that could present illuminated icons, logos, alphanumeric text, flashing notifications and more.
Apple notes that it may be difficult to efficiently use displays to present certain visual information to a user. Their solution involves having a peripheral display that has an array of pixels that form an active area of the display in which an image is displayed.