{"id":3708,"date":"2016-07-01T16:56:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T11:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pakorbit.com\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2017-04-12T08:03:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T03:03:48","slug":"apples-new-patent-can-kill-iphone-camera-remotely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/2016\/07\/apples-new-patent-can-kill-iphone-camera-remotely\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s new patent can kill your iPhone Camera Remotely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has recently got a <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;co1=AND&amp;d=PTXT&amp;s1=9,380,225&amp;OS=9,380,225&amp;RS=9,380,225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">patent<\/a> for a system that allows to disable iPhone cameras with infrared signals.<\/p>\n<p>This technology can be used to stop smartphone photography at concerts and other events. If the smartphone has been designed to respond to certain infrared signals, it can turn off\u00a0camera once triggered.<\/p>\n<p>An illustration in the patent shows that when your camera is disable the smartphone will show the &#8220;Recording Disabled&#8221; message on screen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3710 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pakorbit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/apple-patent.jpg\" alt=\"apple-patent\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/apple-patent.jpg 624w, https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/apple-patent-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/apple-patent-470x264.jpg 470w, https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/apple-patent-215x120.jpg 215w, https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/apple-patent-414x232.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Customers won&#8217;t be happy:<\/h4>\n<p>Technology experts think that this new technology can frustrate customers\u00a0and\u00a0can presumably be used\u00a0illegally.<\/p>\n<p>However another illustration suggests that\u00a0the same infrared signals might be able\u00a0transmit data and information to the phone. Let&#8217;s say if you&#8217;re in a museum and the infrared trigger can give information on mobile screen about certain artifacts.<\/p>\n<p>Apple hasn&#8217;t confirmed if they are going to implement this technology in iPhones and other devices but with the patent in hand they can actually do it anytime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has recently got a patent for a system that allows to disable iPhone cameras with infrared signals. This technology can be used to stop smartphone photography at concerts and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[162,4812,4813,4814,4740,3740,15422],"class_list":["post-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-apple","tag-apple-camera","tag-apple-camera-patent","tag-apple-kill-camera","tag-ourpicks","tag-patent","tag-remote-kill-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakorbit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}