Configurable Back Panel Could Give IDevice Photographers More Options

Apple's not often a firm that grants inexhaustible user options. Historically, Apple's perspective could most appropriate be summed up as, "Users are unaware what they want. We know what they want, and they'll damn good similar to what you give them."

Obviously, it's a location that's served Apple really well, but a not long ago published Apple obvious focus shows that Apple might be meddlesome in giving users larger iDevice hardware options. Specifically, photography-focused iDevice users would be able to change their visual configurations around a swappable back plate.

The patent, " Back Panel for a Portable Electronic Device with Different Camera Lens Options ," describes a way for a unstable electronic device similar to the iPhone or iPod hold to have a configurable "digital imaging subsystem" on the back of the device.

Normally, the digital imaging subsystem in smartphones and similar handheld gadgets are included in a mailing inside of the device's box - sequestered in a way that prohibits users from hacking their camera hardware unless they affix third-party components (like extras lenses ). But Apple's draft way would let the user "reconfigure the visual understanding of the device whilst maintaining the benefits of convention the device using a pre-assembled digital imaging subsystem."

Such a network could make easy a lens (part 106 in the painting above), an visual pivot (108), a separable row (110), and an visual part (112). This visual part could be only about anything, and a couple of not similar examples are described in the obvious application.

For example, the configurable visual part could add an IR filter to fire improved black-and-white photos in low light. The visual part could moreover be an picture stabilizer (with a suit sensor included in the box to improved routine suit data), or simply an visual wizz or a automatic shiver to manually arrange picture exposure.

Basically, all the third-party camera lens cases and additions from outfits similar to Photojojo could be more fluidly integrated with the device itself by these interchangeable, Apple-built back cases.

Of course, the downside of such a reconfigurable pattern is the future for misplacing all the not similar back cases. Is this the sort of cultured answer Apple often comes up with? Tell us in your explanation below.