Unlikely. I skimmed through both patents [1][2], and I don't recall any numbers on throughput. But the general principle is super cool – they analyze the change

Unlikely. I skimmed through both patents [1][2], and I don't recall any numbers on throughput. But the general principle is super cool – they analyze the change in luminance of the picture, and chrominance can be whatever you wish (so they can replace particle cloud with any custom animation). The idea is that human eye is much more perceptible to changes in color than to changes in luminance, but for image processing software it's quite different - they can decode luminance changes quite reliably :) So my guess is that Apple's approach is optimized for coolness, rather than transfer speed. [1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=2&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=(235%2F469.CCLS.+AND+20150505.PD.)&OS=ccl/235/469+and+isd/5/5/2015&RS=(CCL/235/469+AND+ISD/20150505) http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H... [2] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=(235%2F469.CCLS.+AND+20150505.PD.)&OS=ccl/235/469+and+isd/5/5/2015&RS=(CCL/235/469+AND+ISD/20150505) http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...