Is Apple going to disable iPhone cameras at gigs?
The tech giant has just been granted a patent that will allow it to block photographing or filming concerts with infrared transmitters
News By IQ | 29 June 2016
Apple has been granted a patent that could allow it to block filming or taking photos on iPhones at concerts.
US patent 9,380,225, first applied for 2011, relates to the detection of an infrared signal by the phone’s camera, and concerns itself primarily with potential applications for augmented reality – for example, using infrared transmitters at museums to beam information to iPhone users photographing a particular exhibit.
However, the patent also describes a secondary application that will be particularly interesting for venues, stating that “[infrared] transmitter[s]…
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