Apple lately obtained a patent for an iPhone stand that’s designed to connect with a gimbal and supply charging for an iPhone throughout filming.
The patent, “Adapter For Charging and Stabilizing Cameras,” has been granted by the U.S. Patent Workplace. Within the patent software (shared by AppleInsider), Apple claims that present iPhone “cameras have such a top quality that they’re changing conventional single-lens reflex (SLR) and different cameras in lots of functions.”
Apple says that the iPhone digicam’s talents have raised an issue severe sufficient that the “adoption of cellphone cameras into these non-traditional makes use of has been slowed by an absence of enabling infrastructure.”
“Whereas there are huge numbers and sorts of digicam stabilizers comparable to tripods, gimbals, and different units for SLR cameras,” says the patent, “the identical doesn’t exist for cameras on telephones.”
The design resembles a compact make-up case that folds out right into a mount for a tripod. Apple’s charger folds flat and opens as much as a 90-degree angle.
Apple says “It may be fascinating to supply adapters, mounts, and different units to permit current digicam stabilizers for use with cameras on telephones.” Apple says the units needs to be small, permitting them to be simply carried by photographers together with the a number of different items of apparatus carried by the photogs.
Apple additionally defined why energy also needs to be offered to the iPhone, because of how “cellphone cameras could be used for very lengthy durations [or] in power-intensive functions comparable to recording video.”
Lastly, “the cameras on the telephones [should] be readily positioned in varied orientations or positions to supply flexibility.”
Apple goes on to clarify that the answer is very moveable adapters that may mount the iPhone on digicam stabilizers, which are “helpful in quite a few conditions and environments.”
The patent additionally covers just a few variations of how the system works. Whereas the patent by no means mentions “MagSafe,” the expertise being described completely matches the magnetic charging and mounting expertise described within the 20-page patent.
The stubby horizontal portion of the mounting system comprises the connector system that enables the consumer to mount the unit onto a regular tripod. The vertical MagSafe stand resembles a barely elongated model of the present MagSafe mounts.
Apple recordsdata and is granted patents regularly. Nevertheless, most of the patents are by no means utilized in launched Apple units, that means we could by no means see a mount utilizing the expertise described within the patent.
This invention is credited to 6 inventors, Timothy J. Rasmussen, Christoper S. Graham, Eric S. Jol, Aaron A. Oro, Miranda L Daly, and Ibuki Kamei.