User interface for Apple Tablet
Apple, Components, Data Visualization, Design, HCI, Usability Add commentsApple has filled patents for a touch sensitive device and gestures for working with and manipulating the screen content.
Apple has filled a patent for Multipoint Touchscreen which allows up to 15 simulantous touches of the screen. This new hardware allows to recognise gestures for enabling a new kind of user interface. Some gestures are detailed in other patents.
Additionally Apple invented some interesting ideas to over come the big hands/small widgets problem and come up with the new Gestures for touch sensitive input devices patent. These new patents including methods for retrieving and interpreting the data from a multipoint enabled touchscreen to allow things like e.g. moving or zooming images.
Gesture User Interface
Apple Tablet Desing Study
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February 12th, 2006 at 3:14 am
The following link contains a list of registered patents from Apple Computer at the US patents office.
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