electronista.com - 12/4/2008
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Apple has developed technology that would let an iPhone or similar device be controlled by hovering fingers nearby rather than just touches alone, a new US patent filing shows. The system would include the company's familiar capacitive touchscreen t...
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Apple Hover patent tracks non-touch gestures
SlashGear —
... of touch and hover.
The system works by using an array of sensors that track infrared light, from LEDs or OLEDs, and measure its reflection off the user’s hands. Apple describes such arrays either covering the whole display, mapped one to each pixel, or merely on specific hot-spot areas. As with all patents, there’s no knowing when - or even if - Apple will ever include this technology in a commercial product.
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