Franchement n’importe quoi : le billet prétend que les machins d’Apple « vont bénéficier d’un nouveau senseur blah blah ». Sauf que l’article du NY Times sur lequel il se base dit uniquement : « Apple a déposé un brevet fin 2009 » (il y a un an et demi !) et rien d’autre.
Et quand au brevet, il est décrit là, et c’est un truc assez générique d’utilisation de communication par infrarouge (je croyais qu’on ne verrait plus jamais d’entreprenautes se beamer des cartes de visites...) :
►http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/06/apple-working-on-a-sophisticated-infrared-system-for-ios-cameras.html
et le but est de répondre à la question :
Many electronic devices include cameras designed to detect images. For example, a traditional cellular telephone or portable media player may include a camera. Such cameras can typically detect images based on visible light but do not receive any data communications through either visible or invisible light. Accordingly, the functionality of cameras in traditional electronic devices is limited.
et la solution d’Apple :
Apple’s patent describes systems and methods for receiving infrared data with a camera designed to detect images based on visible light. A system could include a camera and image processing circuitry electrically coupled to the camera. The image processing circuitry could determine whether each image detected by the camera includes an infrared signal with encoded data. If the image processing circuitry determines that an image includes an infrared signal with encoded data, the circuitry may route at least a portion of the image (e.g., the infrared signal) to circuitry operative to decode the encoded data.
Ils ne comprennent pas l’anglais, chez Culculs visuels ?
