patent applications

Apple Patent Provides Peek at Snow Leopard Technologies

MacRumors  Fri, 10/24/2008 - 10:23

InformationWeek points out a few new Apple patent applications that were just published which describe technologies that will likely appear in Apple's Snow Leopard (10.6) operating system.

Snow Leopard promises to deliver impro...


 

Beyond Multi-Touch: Voice, Gaze, Facial Expression Recognition

MacRumors  Thu, 09/04/2008 - 04:25

Apple's patent applications provide a glimpse into what might lie ahead in our future. For example, we saw an explosion of multi-touch patents in the year before the iPhone's release.

And while many of these concepts may never come to market, they ...


 

Patents Reveal Ongoing Touch and Multi-Touch Research

MacRumors  Thu, 07/03/2008 - 10:04

The United States Patent and Trademark Office revealed at least a dozen new patent applications from Apple this morning.

The majority of the applications revealed ongoing multi-touch research by Wayne Westerman, the former cofounder of Fingerworks.

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