Apple continues trying to embed Face ID beneath the display
Apple’s morphing ‘Dynamic Island’ featured on iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, and later
Apple patents have previously revealed the company’s efforts to integrate Face ID within future iPhone displays. The primary obstacle has been the difficulty of transmitting the infrared light required for Face ID through the display itself. However, a newly granted Apple patent suggests a potential solution may have been found.
Jack Purcher for Patently Apple:
Over the years, Patently Apple has covered several patents relating to a future iPhone with a camera under the display (01, 02, 03 and 04). Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple another patent on this subject matter that Apple once abandoned and has since resurrected.
Apple’s granted patent covers an electronic device (iPhone, MacBook, iMac, smartglasses, an Apple Watch) that could include a display and an optical sensor formed underneath the display.
Apple’s patent [application illustrations show] front views of an electronic device display showing how the display may have one or more localized regions in which the pixels are selectively removed using a scheme described in the granted patent.
MacDailyNews Take: Someday, Apple will achieve Steve Jobs’ vision of a computing device composed only of an unbroken sheet of glass. For now, the Dynamic Island is such an improvement of over the inelegant kludge that was the horrid notch, we can wait for perfection.
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