http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/ Engadget Comments for Apple patent embeds thousands of cameras among LCD pixels http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Mar 25th 2008 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/
Thanks
Shawn]]>Apr 3rd 2008 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/
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ummm... This patent news is from 3 months ago. It has been reported on by Macsimum News at least that long ago anyway.]]>Apr 26th 2006 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/
http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/01/20060113041940.shtml

from Jan. 13. ]]>Apr 26th 2006 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/
I hadn't heard about it yet, so it's new to me. I dont have time to waste hitting every little mundane tech web site or to troll the web looking for newly filed patents. That's why I come here. They give me things that are up and coming and a mostly timely manner. Besides, the tech is months to years away from being in any commercial uses, so really, who are you impressing with your "I knew about it first" type posts. When you develop a cure for cancer or AIDS, then you can toot your own horn, but until then, just shut up.

Now, as to the technology, I love it. I see lots of problems that could be associated with it, but the benifits seem to outweight the negatives (for now)

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Same basic concept.]]>Apr 26th 2006 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/
Alexander Wunderlich]]>Apr 26th 2006 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/

The idea is pretty simple: shine infrared LEDs through the sides of the glass touch surface, project an image at the frosted surface from the bottom, and watch for the infrared bright spots from underneath that are caused by touching the glass. Now, the setup for this project used a projector, camera, and a glass screen... not very portable. How do you make it portable? Put tiny infrared ccd sensors between the pixels on the LCD. The only problem is that looking for and tracking those "bright spots" takes a little bit of processing power. There is a product that works on a similar principle by Fingerworks: a flat pad that can detect and track multiple touch-points. It uses capacitance rather than infrared to do the tracking, and allows for gesture-style input, similar to what you see in that video -- only without an image. Their products do all the tracking locally in the hardware itself. Well, Fingerworks has "ceased operation as a business" (http://www.fingerworks.com) over the past year. Guess what company is rumored to have purchased Fingerworks. That's right, Apple.

Fingerworks gesture hardware + infrared sensors inside of lcd = portable multi-touch]]>Apr 26th 2006 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/In SOVIET RUSSIA, television watches YOU!]]>Apr 26th 2006 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O1bTNbbWk4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eggleague%2Ecom%2Fnews%2Ephp%3FNewsId%3D2738]]>Apr 26th 2006 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/
Sometimes I think people want technology to go backwards!
This is so you can actually look at a person while 'Videoconferencing', instead of the current tooking at a camera, with the persons face below.

You guys must have never watched a film set in the future before?? In practically every film set in the future this happens, and people can actually look at each other for a change.

This is less "big brother' than staring into a tiny camera lens.]]>Apr 26th 2006 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/
we have an achivist on our hands...be warned.

http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/archivist.htm]]>Apr 26th 2006 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/
So with some clever circuitry, you can have an LED switch between both roles, emitting light and collecting light, several times a second. If you make the LED small enough, the size of a pixel, and cheap enough, so you can cover a surface with them, then you have something that does what Apple's patent is describing - only using LEDs as opposed to LCDs.

Aside from 1984, there is also another short story about the next stage in providing content for TVs. The story talks about TVs that also spy on their owners. So if you're bored watching canned shows, you can switch over to watch how your friend is making out with their date in the "privacy" of their own bedroom.]]>Apr 26th 2006 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/
Beware, your mouse is tracking your body movements! :-)]]>Apr 26th 2006 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/
"...that would allow users to video-conference while looking straight into the "camera"."]]>Apr 26th 2006 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/
TV cameras were using a tube with an electron beam that scanned a surface of photosensitive substance that produced an electric charge when illuminated, as opposed to phosphor in CRT TV's that produce light from an electric current.

By measuring the variations on the draw of current of the electron beam, the camera was able to produce a video signal.

So technically it may have been possible to built a CRT TV that simultaneously scans to illuminate and scans to detect light, "in between lines", working much like a camera and a display at the same time.

But the only problem with that is that to produce a suitable image, it either needs a large lens in front, or micro lens for each pixels.]]>Apr 26th 2006 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/
a) you won't necessarily know there are camera elements in the screen
b) it's a screen that displays and captures simultaneously, without an extra 'camera'.

That's all anyone needs to say. You can end the 'big brother' comments now. ]]>Apr 26th 2006 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/It's 1984 and Big Brother is watching you. Of course, they've been doing it long before these things. It's a scary world; we're building our own Hell.]]>Apr 26th 2006 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/
You can test it at

http://www.monitorcamera.com/

Smile!]]>Apr 26th 2006 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 26th 2006 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/
Embrace the technology.. don't act like a bunch of 0-day or nothing dorks about the news. Months old or not.
Pathetic internet geekdom that complain about how new news is... it's all about the technology stupid.. not the microwave quickness of you geeks knowing about it.]]>Apr 26th 2006 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/
First, there's an "r" in archivist. Secondly, no, I didn't squirrel anything away, I saw it on Macrumors when it was there, then today I...wait for it...went back and found the article! Wow, that was difficult. It's called memory. Some of us have one.]]>Apr 27th 2006 12:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Apr 27th 2006 5:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/26/apple-patent-embeds-thousands-of-cameras-among-lcd-pixels/Content based of user's face expressions, gender, race.
Video games become more interesting - game characters interact with user on much deeper levels.
Your monitor screams :"Hey, look at me!" ! "What r u smiling about"? ]]>Apr 27th 2006 8:18AM