Articles about patent

One of the ways a company can stand and say "we're playing with the big league" is not by making great products but by thinking of the future and present concepts that raise consumer interest. Samsung did it recently with its patent application for a dual sided touchscreen tablet. The concept is not that different to the Motorola Backflip smartphone or the initial prototype of Notion Ink Adam, but there's a pretty important thing that makes all the difference.Samsung didn't imagine the rear ...

Sony is one of the big names of the IT industry that has yet to come up with an official tablet announcement. They told the press a while ago that they're watching closely the tablet market, but still no actual product was presented (or leaked for that matter). Today we know that Sony has filed a patent application for a dual screen tablet, called "electronic book with enhanced features". Don't jump from your chair: this doesn't necessarily that the patent will lead to an actual product, but you...

Apple is not only one of the manufacturers with the best designs on market today, but also one who offers interesting new features on its products, that stand out from the competition. We come upon a bit of news that Apple has patented a new kind of multitouch holographic 3D interface that won't require any type of 3D glasses.The patent is more complicated than it seems, as it involves screen deflectors and projectors to produce special images for each of your eyes. More than that, if a grou...

Remember quantum tunneling touchscreen technology? It's that technology which will allow pressure sensitive panels to be fitted to small devices like nothing we've seen before. Apparently Nissha signed an agreement with Peratech that allows them to use the technology in US for one year on devices with screens smaller that 3.5 x 5.5 inches.With this occasion we found out more about QTC (quantum tunneling) that uses particles with spikes that detect a contact from the early stages when you're ...

Touchscreens are great because they offer bigger screens, thus better graphics and are more natural to interact with but have the disadvantage of getting dirty very fast, even if you wash your hands every 30 minutes (and you know that's impossible). To alleviate this problem Apple has filed a patent for a new type of touch interface that doesn't need the screen to be touched as special sensors will detect user's fingers while approaching the screen. Once this happens the interface reacts (like i...

Flexible display prototypes were presented during trade shows for some time now, but the actual final product failed to launch yet. This doesn't mean this kind of technology won't ever set foot on market and Nokia is one of the biggest names to support flexible displays. Recently the Finnish manufacturer patented a technology called "User Interface, Device And Method For A Physically Flexible Device", a concept that uses the flexible properties of a gadget's screen to search the web.It sound...

To say that Apple is an innovative company is a understatement. They are a company always trying to improve on previous generation of products and made huge improvements in human interaction and interface design plus always tried to improve the quality of interaction by using top notch components that reduce lag or use very good screens that offer unmatched performance (imagine how good they are if I'm not an Apple fan and I wrote the words above).As we know touch screen technologies have th...