Apple filed a patent on naked eye 3D display and mobile Wi-Fi router

ByKārlis Dambrāns

On May 21, 2015, AppleUnited States Patent and Trademark Office(United States Patent and Trademark Office) filed two patents. The patent-applied technology is "display capable of displaying 2D and 3D simultaneously with the naked eye" and "mobile Wi-Fi router characterized by its own cylindrical design".

Apple invents adaptive eye-tracking 3D display, highly portable cellular hotspot
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◆ Display that can display both 2D and 3D with naked eye
Apple calls a newly patented display technology "Spatially interactive computing device". With this technology you can switch the screen display from 2D to 3D, display 2D and 3D at the same time, and you do not need to wear special glasses to enjoy them. "Switching the screen display between 2D and 3D" is easy to understand if you imagine Nintendo 3DS, but it is unknown what "like 2D and 3D will be displayed" at the same time.

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In addition, it is also possible to enjoy multi-view video with patent pending display technology, so different images can be projected when viewing the same display from different viewpoints. In this display, there are multiple overlay layers, and multi-view video and "simultaneous display of 2D and 3D" etc. are realized by finely controlling each pixel of each layer. Also, by displaying separate images on each overlay layer, it may be possible to display different images for each viewpoint, and also deals with Apple related newsAppleInsiderI'm reporting.


In addition, in order to realize 3D display and multi-view video, a sensor for tracking movement of eyes of the user is also included in patent application technology. By using this eye tracking technology, it is possible to output to the display and LCD matrix layer so that different images appear on the left and right eyes, so that users can enjoy 3D images even with the naked eye.

◆ Mobile Wi-Fi router
Another technology Apple has patented is related to "Mobile Hotspot (Mobile Wi-Fi Router)". It is said that it is an ultra compact design to solve the problem of existing products.

While smartphone users use laptops and tablets for tethering when going out, Apple analyzes that users are tired of such usage. Furthermore, the conventional mobile Wi-Fi router has several drawbacks such as "battery is poor" and it seems that we proposed a new compact design to solve these problems.

Apple suggested a cylindrical device without any buttons like the one below.


This cylindrical device can be disassembled into two in the middle, one part including various functional circuits such as logic board · antenna · SIM card and the other is a battery part. The battery part can be easily detached and can be replaced with a larger capacity. There are no switches or buttons at all, so the user seems to operate by twisting the terminal.