Washington : US tech giant Apple has field a patent for new technology that aims to make texting while walking safer by replacing the text background with a live video feed of whatever is in front of the smart phone user.
Smart phone users keep their eyes glued to the screens while texting and it can cause them to bump into obstacles. Apple’s ‘transparent texting ‘ aims to solve this problem by overlaying message on a live video feed from the phones rear camera. This will allow users to see what is happening beyond their phone.
The patent describes how the transparency features could be activated by pressing a transparency button within a texting session that switches on the video feed. The feature would than ensure text bubbles appear overlaid over the live background video. The text bubbles could be opaque or semitransparent, according to tech Crunch.
Filed in September 2012, the patent details extensions of the concept of transparent texting, including replacing the background of a web page with a live video feed, so that the text of a website is overlaid over the environments the user is moving through.
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