Future Macs, exterior Apple displays might be able to show 3D pictures, as evidenced by a newly filed patent (quantity US 20240112628 A1) by Apple for “Shows With Selective Pixel Brightness Tuning.”
Concerning the patent submitting
In response to the patent submitting these units might provide spatial computing options through shows that might embrace lenticular lenses that allow the show to offer 3D content material to the viewer. The lenticular lenses could also be shaped over an array of pixels resembling natural light-emitting diode pixels or liquid crystal show pixels.
A lenticular show might present and conceal subtly totally different components of a picture, relying the consumer’s angle of view. The impact is that as a consumer strikes their head, or alters their gaze, they see parallax-like adjustments and so the picture seems 3D, in keeping with Apple.
Hmmm. I ponder what impact this could have on gross sales of follow-up Imaginative and prescient Professional units if such exterior displays and Macs do come to move.
Abstract of the patent submitting
Right here’s Apple’s (relatively technical) summary of the patent submitting: “An digital machine could embrace a lenticular show. The lenticular show could have a lenticular lens movie shaped over an array of pixels. A plurality of lenticular lenses could lengthen throughout the size of the show. The lenticular lenses could also be configured to allow stereoscopic viewing of the show such {that a} viewer perceives three-dimensional pictures.
“The show could have a lot of independently controllable viewing zones. The viewer could also be notably vulnerable to artifacts brought on by crosstalk on the edge viewing zones throughout the major area of view of the show. Sure forms of content material can also be extra weak to crosstalk than different forms of content material. Subsequently, to mitigate crosstalk artifacts, the pixel worth for every pixel could also be adjusted primarily based on the viewing zone of the respective pixel and content material data (resembling texture data or brightness data) related to the respective pixel.”
