Another day, another Apple patent application. This time, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from the company that details technology related to how a user interacts with a desktop system that is designed in an ergonomically friendly manner and designed for multi-user environments.
The patent seems to relate to preserving user preferences for a shared environment setup whereby each user has their own settings. For example, in a school or office environment, the desktop environment would preserve the users’ preferences and make it easy for the environment to be adapted depending on the user.
In many ways the preferences set-up for a desktop system in a shared environment is the focus of Apple’s invention. Whether it’s a situation of multiple users in an office, at home or at school, the newly invented system makes it a breeze for each individual user to set up their preferences for a shared desktop or iPad Pro. The system could also reset the height of an office chair to make the ergonomically friendly system work right for those involved.
Customizable user settings
While the user preferences may be focused around software settings, the patent also describes the use of hardware to enable the customization and identification of the user. The Apple desktop system appears to utilize Face ID in order to recognize the user of the system rather than someone else that may not be a permanent user of the system. The patent also displays a system that is in both portrait and landscape orientation, which is something that isn’t available in the current desktop offerings by Apple.
To see a patent related to a desktop is unusual for Apple as the technology developments often relate to its mobile or tablet departments that see the most innovation. It would appear, however, that Apple is set to further focus on its desktop offerings.
Environment configuration
PatentlyApple describes that the patent is entirely focused around a user easily being able to configure a system and that device remembering those preferences.
In Apple’s patent application published today the company notes that as technological progress advances, many electronic devices are becoming more user configurable allowing for a more comfortable and user specific ergonomic environment. At the same time, collaboration between users is also on the rise. Consequently, there is a need to allow for users to collaborate and allow for quick adjustment for each user’s ergonomic environment preference.
According to Apple user interface experts, there is a lot of work that can go into evaluating an office workspace and consequent manual configurations that can be provided to offer a more enjoyable environment. These configurations can help avoid possible injuries but making these configurations each time can be tedious and are often reset in a shared office environment. Having a system identify your personal preferences based on your identity and automatically configure your environment based on your preferences would save a lot of time.
Making the necessary ergonomic adjustments is especially bothersome when several people are sharing the same work environment. For example, a tall user and a shorter user may both be collaborating on a project by taking turns using one computer. However, the users do not have a quick and easy way of adjusting the ergonomic environment so as to make the environment safe and pleasant each and every time they rotate using the computer.
Using prior technology, each user would have to independently configure each piece of equipment every time they sat in front of the computer. Similar concerns are also present in a non-work environment when two users are sharing a device. For example, a television’s volume settings may need to be adjusted louder to accommodate the user who is hard of hearing.
With the technology detailed in this patent, it could be that we’ll see a more customizable and personal desktop system introduced by Apple in 2019 that will help focus and preserve the health of the user in a shared office environment.
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