iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus are most likely to pioneer two new Apple patent grants just published yesterday related to a new tapping feature for games and application and a panoramic camera technology.
Patently Apple revealed 38 new patents yesterday including the natural tap-based gesture input for nudging onscreen objects and selecting text and the panoramic camera.
The patents were granted on Tuesday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with patent No. 9,086,738 for "fine-tuning an operation based on tapping" and No. 9,088,714 for panoramic camera.
The new tapping feature designates a solution to a screen hurdle several iPhone and iPad users face when trying to conduct highly granular user interface manipulations on multi-touch displays. Apple called the gesture input a novel mode of mobile device since it will translate a tap on non-screen surfaces, including the sides of an iPhone, into granular on-screen controls.
The invention of the new tapping feature stemmed from the usual taps and swipes' unsuitability for doing satisfactory adjustments. Apple noted, for example, that picking out a specific character in a line of text is a struggle on a touch interface because the methodology depends on "an input object with a relatively large contact area (a user's finger)."
With Apple's new tapping feature, a user can move an onscreen object left or right at the most precise possibility by slightly tapping the sides of the iPhone. This is being picked up by an accelerometer or gyroscope and processed naturally.
"The patent also accounts for varying input magnitudes. Stronger taps move objects greater distances, for example," Apple notes. In text selection, users as well will be able to move the cursor one character at a time through lighter taps.
This gesture was first filed in January 2013 by Maxim Tsudik.
Meanwhile, a panoramic camera technology is another iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus prospect feature for a more creative photographic image. First proposed in 2012, the Apple invention was credited to Frank Doepke and Ralph Brunner.
Other granted Apple patent include a 3D biometric ID that uses statistical information to recognize an automated object. The process is fully automatic which can be used for face detection.
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