Apple's new patent: strap as a display

Curiosity daily news apple for Apple Watch prepared a variety of different watchband, now Apple seems to want these bands also become more intelligent.

The U.S. patent and Trademark Office approved Apple's patent for "woven display" on Thursday. In the patent document, apple describes a composite fabric woven from light transmitting fibers, opaque fibers, and light emitting elements, hoping to produce a special strap using this fabric, which can be used to display information.

This fabric sounds similar to the smart fabric Project Jacquard introduced at the Google I/O conference. Apple weaves translucent fibers and opaque fibers in a certain way and direction, and may add third fibers (nylon, glass, etc.) for malleability and softness.

The two fibers interweave together and the two fibers interweave together

The light transmitting fiber plays a role of the light emitting display, light emitting element that is similar to the LED, because of the different ways of weaving, results are different, the whole fiber may be shiny, or partly by an opaque cover and intermittently luminous fiber.

Apple said in the document, this fabric can be made into a removable strap, can be used to display similar time, temperature and other information, may also be a reminder of the amount of electricity. The patent document also refers to a timing device that uses magnetic attraction, which looks like a patent for Apple Watch.

Maybe it's for Apple Watch, maybe for Apple Watch

Smart watches in addition to working hard on the dial, the strap intelligent, but also smart watches manufacturers another idea. In addition to the chip on the watch band, as well as the watch strap modular, but also because the band on the chip, so waterproof waterproof performance may be discounted.

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