Recently, a new report of claims that Carplay will become more powerful. Apple CarPlay is a system that connects the car's infotainment system to the user's iPhone, and is usually used for making calls, navigating, and listening to music.
According to public information, Apple is planning to cooperate with car manufacturers to expand the range of iPhone applications in cars, including controlling air conditioning and adjusting seats, and accessing speedometers. And humidity sensor readings.
According to the data of Wisdom Buds, as of the latest, apple and its affiliates have a total of 126 countries in span1_span1_span1_span1_span1_span1_span2 Patent application (see Figure 1 for details) , of which, invention patents accounted for 96.97%. It is worth noting that Apple has a total of 116 in Carplay related patents. From the perspective of patent trends, Apple’s automotive patents have been steadily increasing year by year. As early as 2006 , Apple’s annual automotive patent applications had broken one hundred.In recent years, the small peak year of Apple's automotive patents was 2018 , and the number of automotive patent applications in that year was 924 . In addition, according to the data of the target market countries for Smartbuds patents, Apple’s automotive patents are mainly distributed in the following countries / , which are the United States, China, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Germany, and Denmark_ span2span, Hong Kong and other regions (see 2 for details).
Figure 1: Apple company car patent trend
Figure 2: Apple car company Patent Target market country
(Note: The data included in the Wisdom Bud global patent database includes 126 countries / 2 regions that have been published in _span2 regionsGenerally speaking, a patent can be searched from application to publication, it takes 4 to 18 months)
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