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Apple patents display leap frog concepts for touch sensitive displays

US Patent & Trademark Office revealed Apple’s patent number 20060026536 titled “Gestures for touch sensitive input devices.” Apple’s heavy hitters such as Jonathan Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr and Steve Hotelling of the famed Chameleon patent are listed on this patent. The touch sensitive system will apply to a number of devices such as a tablet, the iPod, cell phones, PDA’s and other “consumer electronic devices.

This new series of patents support the breaking news that Macsimum first posted last week on the tablet patent titled “Methods and apparatuses for operating a portable device based on an accelerometer.” The patents present a great number of great new-to-market virtual object concepts that are like interactive widgets. The patent officially defines them as “Touch Images” and provides an explanation for such.

Commercial & industrial touch screens applications

It would appear that Apple may consider licensing their advanced screen touch technology – when you consider the following patent point.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a computer system 500 according to one embodiment of the invention. The computer system 500 may correspond to personal computer systems such as desktops, laptops, tablets or handhelds. By way of example, the computer system 500 may correspond to any Apple or PC based computer system.

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