Data would be encoded in the signals, which includes a signal that disables a phone’s recording function-both photography and video recording. For example, a device may receive infrared signals with encoded data that includes a command to apply a watermark to detected images. Using infrared data transmission, venues can emit a signal that would be picked up by the phone, preventing the user from recording a music performance, for instance, or a new film at the theater. Catchily named “Systems and methods for receiving infrared data with a camera created to detect images based on visible light”, the patent basically outlines a feature where the iPhone can tell when it’s in a “sensitive area” and shut off video recording.
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Apple has been granted a patent for a camera tech that can prevent an iPhone or an iPad to capture an image or record videos during the live concerts or at the “classified facilities”.
“It’s very disturbing when someone proposes technology that would take the power out of the owner or user and hand it to a third party”, Danny O’Brien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation told the news station. It would block iPhones from taking pictures or video during a concert.
It’s all based upon the detection of an infrared signal. In a museum, for example, when focusing a phone’s camera on an object, the phone screen can receive input about what the object is and other information about it.
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According to Silicon Beat, Apple may finally put the kibosh on that idiot who watches the gig through their phone screen with a patent for a new technology that would allow mobile phones to be temporally blocked from using the camera.
