Apple files for multiple input patent
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Apple has filed a US patent application for “multi-touch data fusion,” says Heise Online.
It would utilize the combined input from, “multiple fingers, voice controls, biometric data from the palm of a person’s hand, fingerprints, body temperature, pupil size, skin resistance, and facial expressions,” says the story.
The patent was apparently filed in late 2007, but only published on September 4.
In a possible application, Apple describes how a user marks an object on the display with two fingers and, “The objects size can be changed, and it can be moved or rotated.”
In addition, “the technology described in the patent application will allow using voice commands to insert text or change the colour of an object at the same time as the manual manipulation”.
Adds Heise Online:
“The technology was developed by Wayne Westerman and John Elias, employees of Fingerworks, which Apple took over in 2005. Fingerworks also had a number of other patents and patents pending, such as the further development of the multi-touch principle announced last February.”
Heise Online – Apple files for patent on multiple input technique, September 10, 2008
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September 10th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I bet you that if we search the archive we will be able to find prior art for all of these.
oce again they try to patent ideas not an invention. Idea almost always have prior arts.
Only true invention are intricate enought to raise the bar.
I wonder why idea can not be patented and yet a lot of business manage to patent just ideas and rubish one in most cases. Once again the governement is not doing his job right.