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The popular Macintosh and iPod maker, Apple filed a patent application on multi-touch Mac tablet, with a speculation to implement its amazing iPhone technology to the Apple computers, on 3rd January 2007. Actually this particular patent was originally filed by John Elias and Wayne Westerman, the founders of Fingerworks, the company that did much work on touch-interfaces. In 2005, Apple acquired Fingerworks and so the patent is now in hands of Apple.
Elias described much about multi-touch gestures and their actions. The patent application has detailed description to implement the dictionary of gestures which can be segmented down into a combination of thumbs, fingers and/or other portions of the hand. The dictionary of these gestures will be handed over to the users and they may also assign personalized meanings to some particular gestures. 25 combinations of gestures had been described by Elias for any human hand with 5 independent fingers, in his extreme vocabulary of the dictionary. But now they are expecting to analyze over 300 possible combinations of the gestures of human hand.
Apple is already utilizing this technology in its most popular product, iPhone. The product utilizes a multi-touch user interface with a limited number of human hand gestures. Apple is now planning to extend this technology to its iPods and other displays to cover maximum numbers of human hand gestures. A 52-page patent application has been published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday, which is covering many of the similar concepts of the 2006 patent application. The new application is obviously introducing some new interesting techniques.
This patent is promising to control almost every actions including scrolling, rotating, zooming, panning, enlarging, paging, inertia, zooming targets, keyboarding and wheeling, with both floating controls and messages. Jonathan Paul Ive, the senior VP of industrial design of Apple, has also been listed in the list of inventors. Paul is renowned for being the principal designer of several Apple’s successful products like iPod, iPhone, iMac, the Aluminum PowerPook G4 and the MacBook Pro.
Through that patent application, Apple didn’t mean any particular product. Apple even has deprived to discuss proper roadmaps also. Something more is cooking in Apple labs which they may be forwarding time to time. Oppenheimer though didn’t clear what Apple is presently working on, but promised it to be the “state of the art” and unique.
Like many other supporter of Apple’s table PC, TheStreet.com’s Gary Krakow thinks it to be based on the overwhelming technology of Apple’s popular iPhone touch screen. Though MacRumors suggested the device to be a 12-inch or 13-inch Mac tablet and expected to be in the markets by September or October, it is still wait and watch mode for people around the globe.

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