Apple patent application reveals a LCD screen with switched viewing angles, the protection of privacy

By Dana wollman published on May 22, 2011 5: 48 AM no hate when the guy next to you on the subway is looking over your shoulder, watching screw up in fruit Ninja? Well, Apple could have predicted their anger, in November 2009, before the iPad was nothing more than a Unicorn, the company requested a patent on an LCD display with adjustable explicitly see angles, designed to "protect the display of unwanted spectators". According to the presentation, the screen would include address liquid crystal material modules, which are intended to dispersion modules called that sit on them. The top layer, then redirects the light, making it possible to reduce and alter the angle of view. The patent specifically highlights mobile phones and laptops, paving the way for the sample discrete MacBook and iPhone, although the broad phrase "other portable electronic devices" leaves plenty of room for iPad and iPod touch. There is no word, of course, when or if Apple will ensure this patent, and if so, what devices could incorporate these screens. Us we are only seeing this concept now made public, but it seems that consumers could use this even more today than in the fall of ' 09, when all they had to worry about was a strange cross-eyed on your screen of 3.5 inches of the 3GS .

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