Apple files foul-up-fixing patent for fumbling slab-fondling flubbers Apple has filed a patent which will automatically filter out mistaken touchscreen commands made by clumsy slab-fondlers. The new patent can detect the movement of a person as they manipulate their iThing and then make changes to the GUI. The system can also learn the pattern of a fanbois' mistakes, meaning that when it …
It isn't going to go off speed of travel, but on changes in acceleration. If you walk you have a bit less ability to touch where you want, if you're jogging even less. Not because you're faster, but because the average person doesn't walk/jog on wheels.
“While the user and the device is in motion, the user's dexterity with respect to the touch-sensitive display can be disrupted by the motion”
As can their ability to walk in a straight line, maintain a constant speed, not bump into people, not stop suddenly in the middle of the pavement; essentially, not be an annoying PITA.
Non-IT angle? Newspaper and book reader-walkers, I’m looking at you too!
Picture this. It's 11:20 on a Friday night. Your phone detects that you're weaving about, knows it's closing time so Siri pops up with 'I see you're stumbling out of the pub. Would you like a curry or kebab?' - as a bonus the app can display a snarky paper clip on the screen.
I'm proud of my Nexus 5, which similarly knows if I'm walking, running or riding a bike. But we're dealing with the famous Apple reality distortion field here and the best courts money can buy, so the fact that phone's been out for 4 months and they'll still be awarded this patent even though they only got round to copying it today today is all perfectly right and proper.
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Ahw Shit. Why can't Apple sort this shit out!!!!
Yes baby! Yes Baby! Oh, you've gone all limp. Did you cum prematurely, or not at all, whilst failing to deliver my Orgasm?
I guess my general consensus is you should not be able to patent something 'obvious' to your 'captive audience'.
Seven years for a patent to be processed...Seven years for rival companies to invent exactly the same thing.. No wonder half the industry is involved in patent related lawsuits against the other half. If everyone backtracked every idea they had to see if there allready was a patent pending, the world would be a hell of a lot more expensive to live in :s
need this.
Samsung has bi-level sensitivity which allows for different operating environments. This avoids the Apple design deficiency.
But Apple has a unique audience - who in their right mind buys a product with publicly known defects in it?
And, of course, being lesser intelligent mortals, they are in need of connectors that can never be plugged in the wrong way. Android users know the wrong and right ways.
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