A recently published Apple patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office indicates that Apple may be working on a feature to prevent display burn-in and help save your peepers.
The feature seems to be geared towards augmented reality or mixed reality headsets, as noted here:
Apple’s patent application relates to an eye monitoring system built into the frame support system of a headset designed to detect eye saccades and eye blinks and then make needed adjustments to the eye displays in realtime without the user even knowing this is occurring in the background. Saccades are fast, jerky and mostly ballistic eye rotations. Humans make several saccadic eye movements per second to utilize this highest-resolution part of the retina to look at the object of interest.
As always, patents don’t necessarily show Apple’s direct product path, but hey help show what the company may be working on.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via The Mac Observer and Patently Apple