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New Patent Outlines Swipe Gestures for Touch Screen Keyboard
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... MacRumors points us to a new patent application titled Swipe Gestures for Touch Screen Keyboards that was unveiled by the United States Patent Office today. ...
New patent outlines multi-touch swipe gestures for iPhone keyboard
iPhone Buzz —
... Wow. A new patent application for iPhone during Christmas holiday! The new patent called Swipe Gestures for Touch Screen Keyboards and creditted to Wayne Westerman. Seems it's very useful additions to the iPhone's on screen keyboard. But MacRumors says that Westerman multi-touch patent applications "always seem to be more ambitious than practical". ...
Apple Patent Shows Nifty Keyboard Gestures for the iPhone [IPhone]
Gizmodo —
... While many non-imminent Apple patents can edge into the realm of wishful thinking, this one is pretty doable: useful little gestures for the iPhone, which are received over the phone's onscreen keyboard. ...
Apple files patent for gesture-based text editing
Engadget —
... we suspect), as applications on the company's own devices -- namely the jailbreak-only MobileTerminal -- feature almost this exact implementation of gesture control, and Microsoft has had a similar (albeit stylus-based) concept in WinMo for years. Still, adding in this functionality to the software's existing tools would likely improve navigation and input, and opens the door for solutions to the lingering (and annoying) copy / paste problems Apple seems to have. [Via Mac Rumors] Filed under: Cellphones Apple files patent for gesture-based text ...
Apple patent application details Multi-Touch™ swipe gestures for iPhone touch screen keyboard
MacDailyNews —
... cursor movement analogy, the Enter/Return may be invoked by a downward swipe, and a Shift/Caps may be invoked by an upward swipe. Alternatively, as the Enter and Shift functions may be less frequently invoked, these may be substituted for other functions as well. One alternative mapping for the upward swipe, for example, could be to activate an alternative numeric and punctuation keypad or a particular punctuation symbol like an apostrophe or period. Full article, with more images, here . MacDailyNews Take: Copy-and-Paste?! Hope springs eternal. ...
Patent Application Points to Swipe Gestures for iPhone’s Virtual Keyboard
Cult of Mac —
... Apple may be adding useful swipe gesturing functionality to the virtual keyboard on the company’s mobile devices, according to a report at MacRumors. ...
Apple files patent for Swipe Gestures for Touch Screen Keyboards?
Phones Review —
... The guys over at MacRumors unearthed the Apple patent which points to enabling simple finger gestures such as swipes left and right for basic function control of text editing.
There also appears to be other swipes outlined such as a right swipe for a space, swipe left to delete a character, and a down swipe acting as a return key. Not too sure if Apple is actually contemplating this Swipe Gestures for their Apple iPhone as yet, but we will see what comes.
Source – macrumors
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New patent outlines multi-touch swipe gestures for iPhone keyboard
Top iPhone News —
... Wow. A new patent application for iPhone during Christmas holiday! The new patent called Swipe Gestures for Touch Screen Keyboards and creditted to Wayne Westerman. Seems it’s very useful additions to the iPhone’s on screen keyboard. But MacRumors says that Westerman multi-touch patent applications “always seem to be more ambitious than practical”. ...
Swipe This: New Multitouch Gestures For The iPhone Emerge
iSmashPhone —
... The hope is that these optional functions could provide advanced users with many useful
shortcuts while not steepening the learning curve for novice users. [Via MacRumors]
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