It has been rumored for a long time (and with reason given Apple’s patents) that The dream of the iPhone with all screen would include FaceID on the screen itself without the need for a hole or Dynamic Island and Apple could have found the solution to this problem.
one of The biggest barriers are the infrared light that the FaceID sensor It is used to function and detect our faces since this light would need to go through the screen (round trip) to work correctly. And this is what Apple could have found the solution to with one of the latest patents from Cupertino.
Jony Ive’s long-held dream of having an “all-screen” iPhone may be closer than ever. The iPhone without frames, without the home button and, of course, without Dynamic Island is still in Apple’s plans despite Jony’s departure.
To solve the problem of infrared light, which would lose power and therefore speed when recognizing our faces, Apple had played with the idea of turning off certain pixels on the screen when recognizing or using FaceID. However, The latest patent discovered by Patently Apple describes a simpler way: eliminating some sub-pixels.
And now we all wonder, what is a sub-pixel? Well, each pixel has different light emitters (green, red and blue) and each of them is known as a sub-pixel. By eliminating some of these, Apple believes that infrared light would pass seamlessly through the screen and FaceID would work.
This would lead us to another question: Would it be noticeable on the screen that those sub-pixels are not emitting light or are not there? Apple would be working on only eliminating those that have a neighboring sub-pixel (that is, the pixel next to it) that emits the same light. This added to the suppression of wiring also the sub-pixels that are eliminated, it could work.
This is all very well, but, When will we see it? (today the post seems to be about questions). We have been hearing rumors that Apple will integrate a full screen without Dynamic Island or Notch for years, since the iPhone 15 with more force. However, and although with rumors that point to a smaller Dynamic Island in the iPhone 17 Pro Max and this could be a solution to this, I do not think we will see this technology implemented this year either. Apple patents are not usually implemented overnight, so being so recent means that we still have some iPhone models with built-in Dynamic Island.
Source: www.actualidadiphone.com
