- The patent describes the Airpods case as a wireless audio transmitter
- Apple finger and pencil entrance
- Sound and control mixing options also include
As the famous motto expressed, Apple likes to think differently, and its most different thinking tends to appear in patents, such as this new for the best Airpods case, seen by Patently Apple.
Apple has been presenting interesting Airpods patents for ages, and as notes, obviously, from Apple, presented a design with a touch screen in 2023. And now there is a recently published patent request that carries the idea much further.
What is in the last Apple Airpods patent?
The recently published patent describes the Airpods case as a center for portable audio devices, with a large square touch screen in the front. That screen is shown with a four -moment grid, a playback screen and a photo wallpaper. But it is the following image that is really interesting, because it has a toadiscos.
In the images provided in the application, the Airpods case is shown connected through a cable to a rotating plate and then transmitting the audio from the case to the airpods. It is also shown accepting the writing by hand or the entrance of Apple Pencil on the touch screen.
There are more: the patent also describes two cases that are used or gathered to initiate audio exchange or synchronization. And details the use of multiple audio sources that reproduce simultaneously in a set of headphones, and to be able to use the airpods case to adjust the relative volumes of each entry, which seems like a really great addition.
We have seen some of this before: for example, the Bowers & Wilkins PI8 headphones can have their case connected to cable audio sources to transmit to the headphones, and do it in adaptive quality APTX. And we have seen headphones such as the Live 3 Beam 3 of LG make the case of the touch screen as well.
But what is established in Apple’s patent seems to be more elegant, which, of course, is typically Apple, and even more ambitious in some way.
The bad news is that after decades of observation of Apple patents, I know from experience that what is in a patent does not always end in Apple’s store, and if it does it rarely arrives as soon as we would like: I personally am still waiting for the tactile screen macbook that always seems to be just a few more years.
While none of the technologies described in this patent is particularly extravagant or external, I would still not expect to see any of this in the Airpods Pro 3, but I think it is a good indication of where Apple sees at least some airpods in the not too distant future.
