One can’t steal a patent that has been granted.Hopefully no one steals this patent before Apple puts it out on the market.
One can’t steal a patent that has been granted.Hopefully no one steals this patent before Apple puts it out on the market.
If you didn’t have patents then the consumer would have much fewer and inferior products to purchase. Patents exist to protect the inventors investment if you don’t do this there will be less inventions and everyone’s life will be poorer.Most people on here are Apple shareholders primarily so are happy for millions of other consumers to be screwed
The thinnest iPhone was the 6 and they have gotten thicker since.They could have a flat back right now if they weren't so keen on making the iPhone paper thin.
Doesn’t mean they can patent literally nothing worth mentioning!to be fair that's usually what Apple does, they're not usually first to market with things, but when they come in they do it with a vastly more refined product (usually, not always)
almost nothing will happen to contest. Broadband anti reflection coating plus possible optical bond to the sensor, also known tech. No human would see the difference!!Yeah, I'm wondering what this does to contrast. The more elements light has to travel through, generally the lower contrast and brightness are.
There surely can be an advantage of the lenses are anamorphic for instance, then the phones‘ thickness wouldn’t limit the aperture per see. BUT again, nothing worth a patent.It might be that single prism variants are heavily protected by tons of already existing patents.
Using two prisms, as it is unnecessary, may have been the only patent left that was not yet claimed... hence Apple had to make the design more complicated just in order to not have to pay patent royalties to other companies.
But as was said also, this design has some advantages too, e.g. if the sensor is larger than the thickness of the device. The sensor could be too tall to be mounted upright.
why would you want that? patents literally screw the consumers. ideally, you want no patent to ever exist.
If you didn’t have patents then the consumer would have much fewer and inferior products to purchase. Patents exist to protect the inventors investment if you don’t do this there will be less inventions and everyone’s life will be poorer.
Part of what it does is allow you to have a larger sensorYeah, I'm wondering what this does to contrast. The more elements light has to travel through, generally the lower contrast and brightness are.
It has been several generations since Apple made their phones thinner. the thinnest iPhone was the 6. This trope that Apple is always making their phones thinner does not match the facts.Watch out Apple, turning the lenses sideways is going to put two of your favorite things - thinner phones and bigger diameter lenses - in direct opposition to each other. You'll hit a point where you can't make the phone thinner because the lenses would have to be smaller in diameter. 😱
Given the depth of the phones you'd think the sensor couldn't be that much bigger in this arrangement. It would be good if you could place it diagonally.
As I understand:I find it interesting that the patent uses prisms instead of mirrors for the reflections. Does anyone have an educated guess about why?
If you look at the patent the rendering doesn't match. The render should show an additional prism at the bottom of the lens group so the sensor can be flat on the logic board as it normally would be.Given the depth of the phones you'd think the sensor couldn't be that much bigger in this arrangement. It would be good if you could place it diagonally.
Patents were originally intended to provide the investor/inventor a limited period of time in which to monopolize that technology.If you didn’t have patents then the consumer would have much fewer and inferior products to purchase. Patents exist to protect the inventors investment if you don’t do this there will be less inventions and everyone’s life will be poorer.
The duration of copyright has long been a nightmare.But like copyrights in the US,
If the technology has existed for 100 years, it’s not patentable. If someone managed to get a bogus patent on it, then it certainly wouldn’t survive the kind of scrutiny Apple’s legal power would provoke.I recognize the need for patents, but it does feel like the current system stifles innovation at times.
When companies are forced to over complicate designs just to circumvent patents protecting technology that has existed for over 100 years, it just seems silly.
If aliens landed tomorrow and GIFTED you a manufacturing system to make smart phones based on growing crystals out of recycling carbon emissions, you would still unable to mass produce them because you have to connect to a network.
No, they don’t. They ensure investment and progress. It’s far easier to copy a technology than to invent it. Without temporary exclusivity there’s be no motivation to do the research because there’d be a band of poachers just waiting for you to finish.why would you want that? patents literally screw the consumers. ideally, you want no patent to ever exist.
I also think in the world of High Tech. 20 years is too long. Tech patents probably should be more like 7 to 10 years.
People with other phones are already blown away.Massive upgrade! Can’t wait what Apple will bring. People will be blown away.
The article clearly states that Apple hada difficult time because of patents already awarded.Patent Troll litigation activated in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ....
That doesn't happen to phones that already have a periscope lens, why would it happen on an iPhone?First time the iPhone gets dropped, even a foot or two, the periscope lens will likely be broken.
Besides, the best lens in the universe coupled with a tiny sensor equals a crap camera. And there are no camera controls on a smartphone other than on the touchscreen. So other than a few Auto mode photos that will never be award winning, it is still a cracker-jack box toy camera. Albeit it an expensive one.
Meh....
People with other phones are already blown away.
First time the iPhone gets dropped, even a foot or two, the periscope lens will likely be broken.