“A patent application from Apple surfaced earlier this month in Europe revealing a new Korean patent filing. The patent was originally secretly filed in the US in 2011 under the names of the inventors without showing an assignee,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple. “In that way, a search for Apple’s new patent filing in the US Patent Office’s database would never reveal the original filing.”
“The Korean filing covering the same invention now reveals that Apple is the assignee,” Purcher reports. “Whether the secrecy is warranted or not is another matter. Apple’s invention reveals an Aperture and/or iPhoto user interface designed for the iPad that uses a new method for editing photo brightness, color saturation, contrast and more. The new UI will offer users a sophisticated pop-up menu and sub-menu system.”
More info, including Apple’s patent application illustrations, in the full article here.