“A pair of patent applications published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday reveal Apple is investigating the use of heuristics in its mobile devices to deliver a more realistic digital representation of handwriting, as well as selective touch input that ignores extraneous touch events,” Mikey Campbell reports for AppleInsider.
“Apple’s ‘Handwriting capture techniques’ describes a set of rules used to render a digital replica of a person’s handwriting, or more specifically, how a touch-capable device translates user input into a representation visually similar to handwriting,” Campbell reports. “The second touch-related application published on Thursday was Apple’s ‘Region Activation for Touch Sensitive Surface,’ which describes a system in which extraneous touch events recognized outside of so-called ‘active regions’ are ignored.”
Much more in the full article, including Apple’s patent application illustrations, here.