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.
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 & computingMore from Apple in AR, VR & displays
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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