“The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 36 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“In this particular report we cover a single patent that Apple has acquired from 3 North Carolina engineers represented by the law firm Ober | Kaler,” Purcher reports. “The granted patent covers a user interface that allows control of the image (scrolling and magnification) on the device display by uniquely tilting the device. If Apple went out of their way to acquire this patent, then there’s obviously some new camera application that Apple is thinking of implementing in the not-too-distant future.”
Purcher reports, “The motion-sensitive controls of the current invention provide a user interface that is more natural than current common controls because it allows a user to see more of an image at one time than traditional scrolling, viewing it in perspective so that he can relate new portions in view with portions that were in view already, and doing so with perspective views with which the user is already familiar. In addition, the motion-sensitive control simultaneously allows the user to change the magnification of the image using movements that are compatible with the tilt movements.”
Read more, and see Apple’s patent application illustrations, in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: In related news out of South Korea, Samsung vowed to begin poorly copying it ASAP. Xiaomi quickly issued a response claiming to be the world’s fastest and most stunning Apple IP thief bar none.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Crabapple has judgement issues!
bring them (Xiaomi et al) to my court so that I can exorcise my issues by judging them to the hilt, or as some would say, “throw the book at them.”
oagh!! that would feel soooooo good at many levels!! 🙂
I still say Apple should turn in a patent for something called a flux compositor.
Just to see what Samsung and Xiaomi do.
Flux capacitor actually.
How about a flax composter; that’d really confuse the crap out of ’em.
Or Flax Quadrotriticale, a BTTF & ST mashup?
Nice Star Trek OrigInal Series reference.
Na, Universal Pictures already owns that. 😉
no way, prior art would stop it!!
I judge that Samsung and Xiaomi would produce an influx!
An influx of bullshit!
Oagh!! that felt sooooo good in a 2D kind of way 🙂
Sweet