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Apple's new patent exposure to build drones?

Release time:

2016-12-12 11:27

It was not long ago that it was reported that Apple might use drones to compete with Google on the mapping service. Now the news that Apple is going to build a drone itself is out. According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Apple has filed a patent application for a technology that can improve the behavior of graphics systems. Apple specifies in its patent civilization that this new technology will work with "mobile phones, personal media devices, laptops or tablets.

PatentlyApple, a foreign website that focuses on reporting Apple's patent news, believes that although the patent submitted by Apple appears to be an operating system, it actually implies that they have the possibility of building drones themselves. Because Apple uses "Autonomous Agent" in its patent documents, considering that this technology has nothing to do with unmanned cars, it can be speculated that it may be associated with drones.

According to Nanjing Huaxun, Apple plans to use drones and new indoor navigation functions to improve its mapping service and catch up with Google, the long-term leader in the mapping industry. Apple is assembling a team of robotics and data collection experts who will use drones to capture and update map information more efficiently than existing small map fleets using cameras and sensors. So it seems that it is not impossible for Apple to build its own drones.