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Apple Patents Two-Way LCD Screen
by , 4:05 PM EDT, April 27th, 2006
Apple has submitted a patent application for an LCD screen that can display images as well as capture a shot of what's in front of it. According to an article at NewScientist, the device would contain "thousands of microscopic image sensors in-between the liquid crystal display cells in the screen. Each sensor captures its own small image, but software stitches these together to create a single, larger picture."
In addition to the obvious use in videoconferencing, the Web site speculates that the invention could be used in a cell phone or PDA as a way to both snap photos and display information.
Observer Comments
Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:54 pm Subject: Forget Cell Phone Pictures, You Can Build a Cloaking Device!
OK, imagine a six-sided cube with all sides made out of these screens. Now imagine that each screen displays the image that is being captured by the screen on the opposite side of the cube. BOOM! The cube becomes invisible. There would of course be some optical anomalies around the edges, but it would work a hell of lot better than a camouflage paint job. Somebody call the Pentagon! If you actually created a sphere out of this material and each pixel displayed the pixel being viewed by the element on the exact opposite side of the sphere it would probably work better, but there would still be a problem with the edges. If you knew where the observer was, you could almost do perfect invisibility by each pixel displaying whatever pixel was on the opposite side of the sphere from the observers point of view. TOO COOL! I hope apple builds a Stealth Mac.
- Dean Swift
deanswift@mac.com
This is the same thing MacObserver Scooped back in January. The patent was filed: June 21, 2004, same number.
http://www.macobserver.com/columns/devilsadvocate/2006/20060125lookingglass.shtml
You beat the New scientist, shout about it! : )
Quotestuartea wrote:
This is the same thing MacObserver Scooped back in January. The patent was filed: June 21, 2004, same number.
http://www.macobserver.com/columns/devilsadvocate/2006/20060125lookingglass.shtml
You beat the New scientist, shout about it! : )
Seems like they are out of rumours so they recycle the old stuff!
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