The Cupertino giant is perhaps working on an iPad cover that has the ability to notify users about alerts, and email and messaging notifications, among others.
Apple has filed a patent application with the US Patent & Trademark Office for a new advanced smart cover that can offer 'live illuminated alerts and messages to users on the face and/or inside flaps of the Smart Cover using varying coloured LED lights.' The patent application publish by the USPTO was first spotted by Patently Apple.
As per the application, the cover will feature 'a number of illumination elements disposed across the flap in a first pattern and a connector configured to receive electrical power from an electrical distribution system of the host device and a control signal from a processor of the host device.'
The application suggests that the smart cover will be capable of receiving data from the iPad through a communication medium that connects the cover with the device. The cover's flap would feature illumination elements that will light up to display notifications or messages received from the iPad.
The illumination elements may feature active matrix electroluminescence (AMEL) technology that doesn't consume much power or thin film electroluminescent (TFEL) display panels, with power being derived from the iPad.
However, a part of the cover may also feature translucent or transparent elements that can display notifications for app events, emails, and calendar directly from the iPad's display similar to covers that LG, Samsung and HTC offer with their smartphones.
Recently, LG had unveiled a QuickCircle Case for the phone that lets users access various features of the G3 without having to open the cover. Users can check the time, place calls, send text messages, capture photos, listen to music or get updates related to health stats directly from the circular window.
HTC's Dot View flip covers also displays notifications, time and weather updates and offers the ability to answer calls, without the need to uncover the phone. It utilizes the phone's screen for these notifications with the cover being perforated.
The patent application does not necessarily mean that Apple will launch the cover in the near future. However, the move would make sense as other players are making dumb covers smart.
In its current avatar, Apple's Smart Cover latches on to the iPad magnetically and wakes up the tablet when the cover is lifted.
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