Apple could also be contemplating making its personal line of residence safety cameras. The corporate has been granted a patent (US 11937021 B2) for “Digital camera And Customer Person Interfaces.”
Concerning the patent
The patent relates usually to laptop person interfaces, and extra particularly to methods for managing digicam views and guests. As Apple notes within the patent, cameras put in inside or outdoors of a house allow residents of the house to view occasions that happen, or have occurred, at entry factors to the house. The cameras file video or take photographs of the entry factors, which residents can view from numerous digital gadgets.
Nevertheless, Apple says that some methods for managing digicam views and guests utilizing digital gadgets, “are usually cumbersome and inefficient.” For instance, residents might wish to be notified of occasions captured by cameras, guests at entry factors, or different notable occasions.
For one more instance, some current methods for managing digicam views or notifications use a fancy and time-consuming person interfaces, which can embody a number of key presses or keystrokes. As one other instance, some current methods don’t allow customers to change between completely different digicam views whereas sustaining the flexibility to regulate different equipment.
Apple says that different current methods don’t present customers with a capability to acquire info associated to current guests in photographs captured by the digicam, the place the knowledge is completely different for guests recognized to the house and guests unknown to the house.
What’s extra, different current methods don’t present notifications of ideas based mostly on an occasion akin to a media stream that’s accessible for show. Apple’s patent includes methods that present digital gadgets “with sooner, extra environment friendly strategies and interfaces for managing digicam views and guests.”
Abstract of the patent
Right here’s Apple’s summary of the patent: “The current disclosure usually pertains to digicam and customer person interfaces. In some examples, the current disclosure pertains to methods for switching between configurations of a digicam view. In some examples, the current disclosure pertains to displaying indications of holiday makers detected by an adjunct system of the house automation system. In some examples, the current disclosure pertains to displaying a multi-view digicam person interface.”
