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Members of Apple's PrimeSense Team Patent Method of Interacting With Mac Using Hand Gestures
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I hear you. Don't give up with the death theme. Dig deep and rise up up with rage against the machine.
Gee, I already "interact" with the Mac with my hands!
I use the mouse and the keyboard!
I use the mouse and the keyboard!
LOL the picture. Looks like an Xbox 1 connect. "Can't innovate my ass" my ass.
No, it looks like a generic box, with sparse detail for illuminator and camera, as is typical for patent applications. Ditto with the computer, the keyboard, mouse, chair, desk, and person.
Luckily, this is Apple - a company that prides itself on protecting its customers privacy (as opposed to the other two).
Because we want a bunch of lasers in our eyes and tracking our every move?
Think what Google analytics and Amazon can do with that...
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So, everyone now seeing just how valuable Apple's Face ID tech is going to be on the upcoming iMac, MacBook and Mac displays?
But, yes, the "tinfoil hat crowd" will go on about how the IR projectors are killing us.
Minority Report cited as prior art
edit: zarmanto beat me to it and...
To answer your question, not necessarily prior art but you could definitely make the case that the patent is invalid due to not being non-obvious given a detailed enough fictional description of the functionality.
edit: zarmanto beat me to it and...
To answer your question, not necessarily prior art but you could definitely make the case that the patent is invalid due to not being non-obvious given a detailed enough fictional description of the functionality.
HHTTPS along with the rest or your link is non-valid. Can you edit your post please?
Cheers.
Remind me again, whether or not fictional representations can be used as prior art?
Let's see ...
Retina tracking - Samsung Galaxy S8
Digital Payment - Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Android Pay, Google Pay, Walmart Pay (and everything else)
Electric Luxury and Exotic cars - Tesla, Porsche 918 Spyder, check.
Luxurious Digital + Analog Swiss Watches - still looking.
vaporized illegal drugs - we're still not there yet. IF we where you'd think the Opiod problem is severe lol you aint seen nothing yet!
The problem I have with all this cool stuff Apple is adding to their devices, the ability to turn it off completely. Uninstall or disable all processes. All this stuff clutters the OS, uses resources, requires my manual intervation too not use, and turning off in system only impacts the foreground processes in many cases. Thus, the complaint, Apple upgrades causes many older devices to perform less then they did prior to the update. Cool is only cool if one actually needs or wants the feature.
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Remind me again, whether or not fictional representations can be used as prior art?
Depends. But you've basically answered your question with the words "fictional representations". Not real, so not patentable, just like perpetual motion machines. In 2002 would someone skilled in the art have understood how this was to be done? Not likely given the technology of 2002. Reduction to practice is the key.
In the case of Minority Report, I never read the short story by Phillip K. Dick, but if it was disclosed there, he had one year to file. A lifetime too late now. Same with the movie, one year to file after it was made public, and nowadays the first to get the application in, wins.
Personally, I don't get why people think that is some great concept. Talk about "gorilla arms" using a vertical touch screen (in this case minus the touching). Just seems stupid.
Kintect for Xbox sucks. Hand gestures are DOA there is no point in pursuing this technology any further. It was released by Microsoft, in spite of their best efforts it sucked, they tried to force it on the public anyway with the Xbox One and the public pushed back and bought PS4 instead until they eventually caved and dropped the stupid Kinect so that they could lower the price of the console to compete
Can't get a patent based on "minor change in intent"--whatever you think that means. If there is no innovation there is no patent granted. "Penultimate" doesn't mean what you think it means. "Then" and "than" are different words with different meanings.
In patents the devil is in the details---the actual claims of the patent, not what trolls read in the first paragraph of a press release or blog entry, or one illustration from the patent.
Apple today was granted a patent originally filed in August 2016, describing a method in which users would be able to control a Mac computer -- and potentially other devices -- using a "non-tactile three dimensional (3D) user interface" (via Patently Apple). The patent's inventor credits go in part to Amir Hoffnung and Jonathan Pokrass, two current Apple employees who joined the company from PrimeSense after Apple acquired it November 2013.
Some of PrimeSense's tech, which was originally used in Microsoft's Kinect devices on Xbox platforms, now resides in the front-facing TrueDepth camera of the iPhone X, and the new patent hints at a potential future where this technology expands in function to Macs as well. Instead of recognizing faces, Apple's patent describes a Mac that recognizes a "gesture by a hand," allowing users to interact with the computer without tactile inputs like a keyboard, mouse, or trackpad.
The patent includes a variety of gestures that users would use to control the 3D user interface, including what are called "push," (figure 2) "wave," (figure 3) and "up" (figure 5) interactions, which are all grouped into a category of "focus gestures." According to the patent, some of these could be used to perform basic app interactions, like scrolling through a menu, as well as change the state of the system from locked to unlocked.
Apple has previously been granted patents related to 3D sensing and gesture controls, but the company has yet to release a product that takes advantage of these features. Some of these previous patents included gesture controls on iPads and iPhones as well as on Magic Keyboards, which would allow users to gain access to virtual buttons and potentially streamline certain elements of the user interface.
Of course, with Face ID already launched on iPhone X, it's predicted that Apple will look into adding the facial recognition software into future iMacs and MacBooks before it focuses on a new unlocking system. It's also unclear whether the new 3D user interface patent would include both pieces of technology -- 3D gestures and Face ID -- to further augment a Mac's unlocking process.
As with any patent, the technology in question might not make it to an Apple product in the near future, if at all, but it is an interesting glimpse into what Apple might be planning to do with PrimeSense's technology down the line.
Article Link: Members of Apple's PrimeSense Team Patent Method of Interacting With Mac Using Hand Gestures
The 2018 macbook pro ... will not have a keyboard.
Less moving hardware. Fewer faults. Thinner.
Another win for J.Ive !
Less moving hardware. Fewer faults. Thinner.
Another win for J.Ive !
This.
PTO is on the borderline of being out of control.
Someone going to patent a certain smile now too?