Apple patents making the news isn’t anything new. 3 of them at the exact same time, that is something else.
On the plate this time we’ve got a twin OLED back lighting system for the iPad three, integrated speaker clip for the iPod nano, and new hold and swipe multi-touch gestures for the iOS devices.
Digitimes claims that Apple is considering an alternative back lighting system for the iPad three, with a dual-LED light bar. This would answer the back light issues that folk have been experiencing on the iPad two.
PatentlyApple shows the patent couldn’t only apply to the future iPad, but also the following iPhone, Theatre Display, MacBook, and iMac. The bonding of the OLED back-light in the LCD could also increase the mechanical rigidity of the LCD, that may enable the utilisation of thinner glass substrates and presumably scale back the thickness of the final machine. Further, an OLED back light may typically be thinner than a normal LED back-light, and might also provide improved light uniformity without the utilization of light guides or extra lightness augmenting films PatentlyApple has posted company plans to use utilise a tiny, integrated piezoelectric speaker clip on the future iPod nano ( and maybe shuffle ), like the present nano. Apple plans on using Kapton polyimide film in the design. This would turn out to be useful for users who don’t need the trouble of using phones, or maybe can’t in a particular scenario. An iPod nano watch with speakers?
