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Apple Applies for a Touchscreen Gesture Patent
SuperMog2002 writes "According to an article in PC Magazine, Apple has submitted an application for a patent on "several methods of applying gestures to touch-sensitive input devices." Could there be a new form of tablet PC or PDA in Apple's future?"
Has the tablet market come up with a way to deal with screen scratches?
If anyone can figure out a way to prevent unsightly scratches on a portable device screen, I'm sure it will be Apple.
Palms have had this for awhile have they not? Not handwriting recognition - you could, say, drag the pen from top to bottom and the backlight would come on.
Palms only recognize one point at a time. The patent covers multi-point gestures, like (as described), zooming in on a point by simultaneously selecting the point with one finger and using another to control the zoom.
The post title, summary, and the article itself all make it sound like Apple is patenting all touch-screen gestures, but that's not what the patent application itself says.
Don't become a regular here -- you will become retarded.
one of the new patents will include "navigating interface via tongue", cause we all know apples aqua UI is sooo good you want to lick it?
*runs away and hides*
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The touch screen reacts the same whether I use one finger or two.
That's because it's a single-point screen. Multiple-point touch screens (i.e. the only kind referenced by the patent application) behave differently.
The patent is vague
You've already demonstrated that you haven't read any of it. The very first claim specifies "touch sensitive device having a multipoint capability".
Besides, what's Apple going to do then? Sue the priest...
Now you're demonstrating that you are being willfully stupid.
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