{"id":4805,"date":"2016-11-21T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/?p=4805"},"modified":"2026-03-27T12:51:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:51:55","slug":"honda-patents-touch-sensitive-window-tinting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/blog\/honda-patents-touch-sensitive-window-tinting\/","title":{"rendered":"Honda Patents Touch-Sensitive Window Tinting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Touch-sensitive window tinting could be coming to a car near you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carscoops.com\/2016\/11\/honda-patents-advanced-touch-sensitive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to Carscoops<\/a>, Honda has filed a patent for window tints that would respond to a user\u2019s touch. The window works when a user touches it and drags a finger down to a desired point, tinting only that section of the window. The blog says that, alongside being a massive convenience to adjust the tint when required, this could spell the end of flip-down sun visors as it could be used on a vehicle&#8217;s windshield.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the patent would only allow tinting to be altered while the car is stationary.<\/p>\n<p>Honda\u2019s patent could work in any car, and it has the capability to be a massive success if it comes to market. Sun glare is a major safety issue, and there just have not been any meaningful innovations in this area since the advent of cars. If Honda can license this technology, it could be a huge money maker for them.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it\u2019s also a technology that could certainly factor into the emerging market of autonomous driving. With windshields and windows on the precipice of becoming content filters, tinting windows in a desired area could not only be a practical safety solution in the present day, but a useful development for media consumption in the future of automobiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Touch-sensitive window tinting could be coming to a car near you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[20,22,28],"class_list":["post-4805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patents","tag-automotive-patents","tag-derwent","tag-patents"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":4805},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290166,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions\/290166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/intellectual-property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}