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macnn.com - 9/4/2008

MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

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Apple Files Highly Advanced Multi-Touch Data Fusion Patent On September 4, 2008, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple’s patent application titled Multi-Touch Data Fusion . Apple’s patent generally relates to systems utilizing multi-touch sensitive input devices and other ...

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Apple MultiTouch Fusion Patent mixes touch with voice & biometrics
SlashGear — ... as multitouch commands. Apple suggests that alternative sensors could include: “Biometric sensors, audio sensors, optical sensors, sonar sensors, vibration sensors, motion sensors, location sensors, light sensors, image sensors, acoustic sensors, electric field sensors, shock sensors, environmental sensors, orientation sensors, pressure sensors, force sensors, temperature sensors and/or the like” Apple patent [via MacNN] ...

Apple files multi-touch gaze/touch patent
CrunchGear — ... A patent filing by Apple shows some sort of strange gaze/touch combination designed to add voice and gaze detection to a standard UI. This looks like it works best for media interaction - you can touch both ends of a photo, for example, and expand and contract the image as needed. You can then pick another one with your eyes and then change the image, add text, or modify colors just by speaking. Will it be hitting the next Macbook iteration next week? Probably not, I’m sad to say, but at least we know Apple is thinking about ways for adding text to our pornographic images. ...