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Apple files for patents relating to advanced gesture input methods. This could be the beginning of future tablet devices from Apple
Apple today filed for a patent
with the US Patent and Trademark Office for designing devices that
accept full input from touch. The patent details methods where a user
can simply control everything that is done traditionally using a mouse,
by finger. Apple calls the method gestures, which expand on current
technology to allow finger motions to work in even a 3D space.
Gestures
are already being used in some areas such as web browsing. The Opera
browser for instance, can accept mouse gestures to navigate pages.
Basic gestures are already being used in Apple's OS X on its line of
notebooks. The patent is very extensive and covers a wide range of
gestures from zooms, rotations, knobs, panning and more. Some gestures
will even allow a user to pick up items such as objects and icons.
From the patent:
3.
A computer implemented method for processing touch inputs, said method
comprising: reading data from a touch sensitive device, the data
pertaining to touch input with respect to the touch sensitive device,
and the touch sensitive device having a multipoint capability;
converting the data to a collection of features; classifying the
features; grouping the features into one or more feature groups;
calculating key parameters of the feature groups; and associating the
feature groups to user interface elements on a display.
4. A
method for recognizing a zoom gesture made on a multipoint touch
sensitive device, comprising: detecting the relative locations of a
first object and a second object at the same time; detecting a change
in the relative locations of said first and second object; generating a
zoom signal in response to said detected change.
See the entire patent from Apple here. Thanks to Anthony Hin for the notice.
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