The company has different designs for future AirPods charging cases.
Apple plans to design a charging case for AirPods with touch screen which allows users to control music playback and interact with applications associated with wireless headphones. On the other hand, the company also intends to launch a charging case for AirPods Pro with USB-C on the market.
A new Apple patent filed in September 2021 and published last week at the United States Patent and Trademark Office
This will be the charging case for the AirPods of the future
The patent illustrations show us a charging case in which AirPods Pro are inserted in front of which a space is reserved for installing a touch screen.
The patented touchscreen is located on the front of the charging case
According to the patent, “device cases are typically passive devices used to charge audio devices (AirPods)” and “the usefulness of a case can be enhanced,” as well as user control, “by configuring an interactive user interface”. all operations associated with the wireless headset.
“There is a need for a headphone charging device so that it can control operations that are traditionally associated with headphones.”
The patent indicates that these operations of the case could refer to a change of audio sources, playback controls and switching output modes. What’s more, the touch screen of this AirPods charging case could also display relevant information about earphone operation, such as song names, albums, artists, apps, charge percentage, etc.
Patent illustrations show various methods of functionality
This idea of creating a touchscreen charging case could be of great use to AirPods users. The patent describes uses such as controlling Apple Music with touch controls for add songs to favorites, control audio volume and interact with audio playback
On the other hand, from MacRumors they report that this charging case with a touchscreen could also have touch gestures such as keys and slides to navigate the content that appears on the screen and even to enable Siri virtual assistant services.
On a different note, Apple has been planning for some time to introduce cheaper AirPods Lite with limited features to the market to compete with other low-cost wireless headphones.
What do you think of this new Apple patent and this idea of developing a box with a touch screen?
