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Apple patents 3D screens that flatten when you move your head

Apple describes a system that tracks where you are looking at a screen and changes how deep the 3D images appear. If you move your head to a different position, the system reduces the 3D effect to make the picture easier to see.

Why it mattersThis could make 3D displays more comfortable to use by adjusting the image based on your position, which is useful for headsets or immersive screens.

In the filing’s own words

The present disclosure generally relates to providing and/or displaying three-dimensional user interfaces.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A computer system configured to communicate with one or more input devices and one or more display generation components, comprising: one or more processors; and memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for: while displaying, via the one or more display generation components, first content with a first magnitude of stereoscopic depth from a first viewing position that is in a first range of viewing positions, detecting, via the one or more input devices, a change in viewing position from the first viewing position to an updated viewing position; and in response to detecting the change in viewing position from the first viewing position to the updated viewing position: in accordance with a determination that the updated viewing position is in a second range of viewing positions that is different from the first range of viewing positions, displaying, via the one or more display generation components, the first content with a second magnitude of stereoscopic depth that is less than the first magnitude of stereoscopic depth.

Facts

Company
Apple (Apple Inc.)
Official title
THREE-DIMENSIONAL USER INTERFACES
Publication number
US20260277388A1
Application number
19680838
Filed
May 18, 2026
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Inventors
6
Claims
27

Classified under

G06F 3/04815 Physics & computingG06F 3/0484 Physics & computingG06F 3/0487 Physics & computingG06F 3/04845 Physics & computing

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