The US Patent and Trademark Office has published two patent applications from Apple related to the large Apple Watch face and anti-pixel screen technology, “the well-known defect of the OLED screen under certain circumstances,” which means big changes to how the user interacts with the wearable devices. What is the truth of these technologies? Will we see it soon?
Knowing the time on the Apple Watch is not difficult. Until now, those wearing an Apple Watch had to quickly move or twist their wrist to wake the watch and see the time.
According to that patent, Apple proposes modifications to the watch's screen, so that the time is always displayed directly instead of activating it every time. Thus, the Apple Watch acquires a new feature for smart watches today, making it very similar to its predecessors from analog watches, which makes it beautiful.
This situation has been described as "permanent". Perhaps Apple responded to the requests of its fans who demanded this feature a lot. Perhaps the reason why this feature has not been provided yet, is for two reasons:
The first reason: It is the battery draining in a short time due to the constant activity of the watch screen and not entering the sleep time.
The other reason: is the possibility of damage to the screen due to what is known as pixel burning, due to the display of the image for a long time on OLED screens, which leads to a decrease in the pixel pitch to a point where it cannot display the other image correctly, and thus the clock numbers are printed ghostly on the screen all the time and in All its pages and applications. It seems that what Apple presented focuses on the last point, which is how Apple avoids pixel burnout, especially with OLED screens.
For example, if an OLED watch is constantly displaying the time, the hour or two digits between the hour and the minute can cause a pixel burn, and those objects will remain on the screen for a long time.
The patent filed by Apple does not provide a remedy for the problem of pixel burning, but it provides another way to avoid burning with the permanent display of time on the screen, by making the information move slowly up and down the screen, and this is done by finding a way through which data is collected about the use of each pixel, that helps The watch knows what to do to avoid pixel burn.
Adjustments will be made to the pixels that are exposed to combustion automatically, in order to professionally adjust the screen that will restore visual symmetry, and the display will not have any noticeable changes on the part of the user.
Apple called this process "techniques to reduce burnout in OLED screens" and it is expected that this technology will not be limited to the watch only, it is possible that Apple will apply it in its other devices, especially the iPhone.
This technology was introduced by Apple in August 2017, but it was not published by the US Patent and Trademark Office until this week. Since the technology is still in the patent stage, we cannot know when this technology will be launched. While Apple can offer it in its next hour or even in the next iPhone devices in a few days. It can also stay in drawers and never see the light.
We had an idea about the watch due to the leaks that have occurred in the past few days. You can see these leaks in this the article.
Sources:
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