New Apple Patent for LockScreen Features
Apple, like most big tech companies (Samsung, Google, LG, Panasonic, etc..) file a lot of patents for inventions that will likely never come into fruition. Today is no different, Apple has published documents to the U.S. Patent and Trademark office discovered by PatentlyApple, see image below.
One of the more noteworthy features is the newly animated lock-screen which would allow quicker access to frequently used apps via new animated feature accessible through a home button that could also recognize pressure input. Sure some might argue that this isn’t something Android hasn’t already had for years, but can you imagine it being on an iOS? It’s about time if you ask me. These new features will surely help iOS users bypass having to input their security pins just to ‘access’ the things that they should (in theory) already have access to from the get-go.
In addition, apple filed another application in Q3 of 2011 which shows Apple experimenting with the possibility of having hybrid/notebook tablet designs (nothing Windows hasn’t been pushing for years).
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“the screen may include a touch sensing or other input mechanism, such as a capacitive touch sensor, to allow the screen to further function as an input device for the computing device. This type of input functionality may be helpful when the display is removed from the base… the switch may have a magnetic polarization or other magnetized force and may interact with another element, such as an electromagnet, to mechanically pull the support members into or out of the enclosure.”
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