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Apple patents system for iOS devices to prevent image and video capturing
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Re: Apple patents system for iOS devices to prevent image and video capturing
#12Infrared filter, anyone?
Re: Apple patents system for iOS devices to prevent image and video capturing
#13Infrared filter, anyone?
Most CCD-based cameras alread have an IR filter film behind the lens. There are lots of people that hack them out to turn their webcams etc into night vision cameras.
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#14This is really scary. I'm a total apple fanboi. But no way I'd buy a phone with this baked in. I don't like to think apple would bow this deeply to the recording industry. Maybe the government. Either way it turns my stomach. "At block 950, a record function can be disabled. For example, if the encoded data includes a disable command, the device can temporarily disable its record function for a period of time after r…
> But no way I'd buy a phone with this baked in.
Don't worry. It'll come bundled in a firmware update.
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#15This is a purely defensive act to keep some company from producing a device that blocks Apple devices, but they can still make one for WebOS/Blackberry/Android/WP7.They're doing it to prevent someone else from producing/selling a similar device.
If that's the case, they should donate the patent to either the EFF or the ACLU.
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#16Infrared filter, anyone?
Most CCD-based cameras alread have an IR filter film behind the lens. There are lots of people that hack them out to turn their webcams etc into night vision cameras.
True night vision is a bit different than just adding near-infrared, unless you plan on using an IR illuminator. It's more like cranking the ISO to ridiculous levels, and if it's thermal the wavelengths are much much longer than any digital camera (or optics) can pick up.
In any case, the first poster is right, an additional IR filter would remove this.
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#18I want this to go into the iPhone 5. If it does, I can think of about a million ways to troll the general public with it.
Imagine, little solar-powered IR LEDs that you could ninja-drop in places (like...an Apple store) that would broadcast "Hello, you are photographing a copy of The Hurt Locker". This would make the best hidden-camera show ever (though you'd have to record it with a non-iPhone).
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http://www.patentlyapple.com/.a/6a0120a5580826970c015432b717...
Apple was the first one to suggest this use case, not the blog.