If anyone cares to verify Swordmaker’s claim that Apple invented multi-touch and “gestures”... I ask that you look over the following info and links:
“1982 – First Multi-Touch System – Nimish Mehta , University of Toronto
The very first multi-touch system designed for computer input was a frosted glass panel with a camera that detected finger motion. This simple interface, which depended on a camera, allowed for multi-touch picture drawing.
1983 – Pioneer of Rich Gestures – Myron Krueger
Myron Krueger created a vision-based multi-touch system which enabled a rich set of gestures, including ones that were similar to today’s pinch-to-zoom gesture. You can view his hand gestures in this 1988 video. Although his system was vision based, the gestural interaction you see on your mobile phone got its first start on Myron’s system.
1984 – First Multi-Touch Screen – Bob Boie, Bell Labs, Murray Hill NJ
The invention of the first multi-touch screen used a transparent capacitive array of touch sensors overlaid on a CRT. Unlike multi-touch tablets, in which the touch input and visual output are separate from one another, the visual outputs of multi-touch screens are directly beneath the touch sensors.
1992 – Flip Keyboard – Bill Buxton
The multi-touch pad you see on today’s Macbooks had its origins in a multi-touch pad integrated into the bottom of a keyboard.
2001 – Diamond Touch – Mitsubishi Research Lab
Diamond Touch, created by Mitsubishi Research Labs, is a multi-touch system that projects an image onto a table, resembling the multi-touch technology in the iPhone. In fact, its technology is so close to the iPhone’s that Samsung’s legal team brought in a Diamond Touch table to try to prove that Apple’s pinch-to-zoom patent was not valid. Take a look at this video and see for yourself.
The full history of multi-touch systems is published in a white paper by Bill Buxton, a pioneer in multi-touch interfaces.”
Putting a capacitive touch screen as opposed to a resistive touch screen on a device with a phone included is not a revolutionary idea. It was simply evolution that someone or a corporation were working to get this combination to market. Claiming that this was some sort of stroke of genius is laughable.
https://inventhelp.com/archives/11-12/inventhelp-newsletter-november-2012/who-invented-multitouch
http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t35HXAjNW6s
Sorry, you are just wrong, despite your blizzard of obfuscating links relating to desktop computing with failed technology that never really worked or took hold. Apple holds the valid patents on all of the multi-touch technology on mobile devices. The last word uttered on these was made four years ago on October 17, 2013 when the US Patent Office validated ALL 20 claims Apple had made in their earlier patents. . . and Apple started licensing the technology to the other makers of capacitance multi-touch phones, recognizing that that genii had already left the bottle.
Apple multitouch patent upheld by US Patent and Trademark Office
by Bryan Bishop — The Verge — Oct 17, 2013, 4:35pm EDTThe United States Patent and Trademark Office has upheld a key Apple multitouch patent in a move that could have real ramifications for companies like Samsung and Motorola moving forward. The USPTO issued a certificate on September 4th confirming the patentability of all 20 claims of US patent number 7,479,949. An initial ruling back in December of last year had rejected them, but this latest reexamination certificate basically walks that back in its entirety.
The '949 patent covers multitouch functionality, such as the ability for a device to interpret a diagonal downward swipe as a purely vertical gesture in order to allow pages to scroll smoothly and consistently for users. It's a patent of particular note as it's been used by Cupertino against both Samsung and Motorola. In fact, it's one of the patents at issue in the ITC's recent ruling to ban the import of some Samsung products into the United States. As a result of that ruling, Samsung will have to ensure that the devices it sells in the US do not infringe upon any of the involved patents — and with this latest USPTO action, one avenue through which to resolve that issue has been shut down for good.
Here is Apple's US Patent # 7,966,578 specifying a Capacitance multitouch Screen on the iPhone.
Application 60937993 first filed Jun 29, 2007. So much for your bogus claims.
The courts and the US Patent Office and the Federal Trade Commission have validated these patents. You can dance around making a fool of yourself all you want, claiming anything you want, but the history and legalities are that Apple is credited with inventing the modern smartphone as it is embodied and works today as a multi-touch display device, not a physical keyboard device with a small display only phone. . . just as Apple essentially perfected the Graphical user interface for the desktop and had it ripped off by Microsoft to make an upside down and backwards system called Windows. . . and no, Apple did not "steal" it from Xerox, to anticipate your next claim. It was parallel development with Apple paying Xerox for some ideas only.