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(0 comments) Door Koenraad Verherstraeten maandag 28 januari 2019 Hardware.info
Bijna twee weken geleden meldden we dat Microsoft zou werken aan Windows om het besturingssysteem voor te bereiden op apparaten met vouwbare schermen. Dat is natuurlijk niet onlogisch aangezien steeds meer fabrikanten werken aan toestellen die gebruik maken van deze moderne beeldschermtechnologie. Nu blijkt dat in het WIPO (World Intellectual Property Office) al in 2017 een patent publiceerde van Intel dat betrekking heeft op een mobiel apparaat in de vorm van een smartphone, die uitgevouwen kan worden tot een tamelijk grote smartphone.
Wat het toestel extra bijzonder maakt, is het feit dat het volledige toestel randloos is doordat de sensoren en camera's onder het scherm geplaatst zijn, zodat de gebruiker kan genieten van een zo goed als ononderbroken scherm. Het toestel zal iets dikker zijn doordat je het twee keer kan openvouwen, in plaats van slechts één keer, wat een aantal creatieve mogelijkheden creëert om het toestel te gebruiken.Ten slotte is er in het apparaat ook ruimte gemaakt voor een stylus.
Het patent is er natuurlijk al een tijdje gepubliceerd en Intel heeft in al die tijd nog niets bekendgemaakt over het toestel. We hopen dat daar in de nabije toekomst verandering in komt, maar voorlopig blijft het bij een blik op een potentieel toekomstig hebbeding.
(14 hits) (0 comments) By Jon Porter@JonPorty Jan 25, 2019, The Verge
The foldable phones are coming, that much we can all agree on. Multiple manufacturers have announced their intentions to produce a folding device, Google is building support for them into Android, and we’ve even seen the first such phone actually make its way to market in China. At Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next month, rumors suggest more announcements are in store from companies ranging from Huawei to Motorola and even Oppo. But outside of an implicit agreement that folding phones are going to happen, there’s close to no consensus about what the best form for them actually is. Through various early teases, announcements, and patent filings, we’ve seen a range of different form-factors proposed. Ask four different manufacturers what form their folding phone will take, and you’ll get four very different answers.
(23 hits) (0 comments) Seth Kubersky Orlando Weekly January 28
Universal may have struck upon a solution in their new patent application for "Systems and Methods for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Path Management," which basically boils down to harnessing guests like hyperactive toddlers on a leash and tethering them to an overhead track, allowing them to walk forward without straying across their neighbors' path.
Universal's idea appears to enable multiple guests to use the attraction simultaneously using a "block zone" method "to ensure that users do not interfere with other users' experiences."
Similar to systems that allow multiple roller coaster trains to be on the same track without crashing into each other, the tether would restrain guests from getting too close to a slower player ahead of them while displaying "VR images of a locked gate, a dense fog, dense foliage, a wall, etc." The tracks could even have multiple branching paths, giving users the illusion of free roaming without fear of flailing into fellow players.
(55 hits) (0 comments) A new patent application by commerce giant Amazon describes a smart doorbell that would use a camera to monitor users’ neighborhoods using facial recognition technology and report suspicious activity to the authorities. Needless to say, it immediately made privacy advocates uncomfortable
The patent for the doorbell lists as its inventor James Siminoff, the CEO of home security startup Ring, which Amazon acquired in February 2018.
There’s no guarantee that a patent will become an actual product — remember those goofy VR rollerskates Google filed an application for in November? — but CNN speculated that Amazon’s interest in the doorbell is connected to its social network called Neighbors, which is built on Ring technology and is meant to share information about thieves who steal packages.
(112 hits) (0 comments) (112 hits) (0 comments) (137 hits) (0 comments) Apple presented an electric vehicle feature via a patent application this week entitled "Peloton," which outlines designs to connect the batteries of moving EVs to reduce energy usage via load sharing.
In a patent filed Tuesday by Apple Inc. with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a set of designs for a method linking moving vehicles together for the benefit of all emerged. The document is titled, "Peloton," a term for the main group of bikers in a race. Likewise, the patent describes a method of linking a group of at least two vehicles on the road in the optimal configuration "so that driving range differences between the vehicles can be reduced via load sharing via the electrical connection."
(115 hits) (0 comments) Apple was granted a total of 46 patents today, including a patent for a 3D printing technology that uses triangular tessellation. The patent, which was initially filed in 2014, describes a process invented by computer scientist Michael R. Sweet which utilizes a triangular infill pattern to produce stronger, more efficient 3D printed models.
According to the patent description, the triangular tessellation 3D printing method proposed is meant to enable faster print speeds and to reduce the amount of material used for a given part. This is achieved by using a “triangle support pattern” (or triangular tessellation) print head motion instead of a circular print head movements, which are more or less standard in existing 3D printers.
In short, the patent describes a 3D printing process wherein the print head extrudes material onto a print bed in a triangular tessellated pattern. Unlike many common infill patterns which are constant throughout a since piece, the triangular pattern would vary in size or density. For instance, the outer edges of a part would be made up o smaller triangles, while non-edge portions could have larger triangular tessellation (thus reducing material consumption.)
(77 hits) (0 comments) (113 hits) (0 comments) (133 hits) (0 comments) (99 hits) (0 comments) Huawei might be working on a new device which will come with two screens. The device won’t be having two different screens but would have a virtual separation between the screens which will be used for different purposes.
The patent titled “device with peripheral task bar display zone and under-LCD screen optical sensor module for on-screen fingerprint sensing” recently surfaced on the USPTO and was filed by Huawei in the beginning of the year. The patent shows an in-display fingerprint scanner which will be placed at the lower half of the screen along with a taskbar which would operate separately from the display. This separate taskbar will be used to show notifications and other important messages including alerts, text messages, etc.
Coming to the fingerprint sensor, Huawei is working on a way to add health features to the in-display fingerprint sensor. The sensor would be able to read heart rate and detect heart beat as well. Another possible feature is reading the blood oxygen and glucose level in the blood which might be possible with the optical sensor.
Via: Letsgodigital
(75 hits) (0 comments) Els Bellens, Data News.
Techgigant Microsoft wordt lid van het Open Invention Network, een organisatie die Linux wilt beschermen. Daartoe geeft het bedrijf ook een grote reeks patenten vrij.
Microsoft vervoegt het Open Invention Network (OIN), een openbron patentengroep die bestaat om Linux te beschermen tegen patentenrechtszaken. Dat schrijft het bedrijf op zijn blog. OIN is een licentieplatform voor Linux met zo'n 2.400 leden. Elk van die leden krijgt gratis toegang tot de OIN-patenten en beschikbare licenties van andere leden. (Verder lezen)
(118 hits) (0 comments) The plan focuses on areas such as patent law and patent examination guidelines, examination quality, data exchange, classification, search tools and machine translation, and also foresees a joint study on computer-implemented inventions. It falls under the framework of the comprehensive strategic partnership agreement signed by the EPO and the Chinese office last year - the first such agreement between two major patent offices.
(347 hits) (0 comments) This patent battle between Apple and Samsung is the lawsuit that just won’t go away.
Since 2011, the two smartphone giants have been fighting over five patents due to the claim that Samsung infringed on Apple’s intellectual property when it made a handful of devices including the original Galaxy S 4G, the Galaxy S2, and the Droid Charge.
In earlier hearings, the court had already determined Samsung did infringe on two of the utility patents in question, which was determined by the jury in the most recent trial to be worth a fine of $5.3 million.
However, the more contentious part of the lawsuit involves the three design patents (1, 2, 3) in question, which describe a device with a black front, rounded rectangular corners, similarly curved surrounding bezels, and a colorful grid of icons.
