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Apple's Patent Applications For Tablet Technology

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The Apple patent application for Multi-Touch Sensor Patterns And Stack-Ups describes and illustrates

The Apple patent application for Multi-Touch Sensor Patterns And Stack-Ups describes and illustrates   The Apple patent application for swipe gestures for touchscreen keyboards describes   A 52-page patent application filed by Apple in August 2008 and published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows gestures on a touch screen associated with a number of tasks, including zooming, panning, scrolling, rotating, enlarging, and floating controls.  The abstract of a patent application filed in June 2007 by Apple describes  

Multi-Touch Input Discrimination

The Apple patent application for Multi-Touch Sensor Patterns And Stack-Ups describes and illustrates "techniques for identifying and discriminating between different types of contacts to a multi-touch touch-screen device. Illustrative contact types include fingertips, thumbs, palms and cheeks. By way of example, thumb contacts may be distinguished from fingertip contacts using a patch eccentricity parameter."