So we're posting tabloid FUD now?<p><i>The California company has plans to build a system ...</i><p>and further down the page<p><i>It is not clear if Apple intends to develop the concept into a working system, and if so, whether it will be implemented within the company’s devices.</i><p>---<p>Btw, this was originally reported on Patently Apple [1], along with some actually useful analysis, including the patent itself [2].<p>[1] <a href="http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/06/apple-working-on-a-sophisticated-infrared-system-for-ios-cameras.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/06/apple-wo...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220110128384%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20110128384&RS=DN/20110128384" rel="nofollow">http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...</a>