{"id":20492,"date":"2010-05-29T18:55:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T17:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=20492"},"modified":"2010-05-29T18:57:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T17:57:35","slug":"apple-patents-for-magic-mouse-un-earthed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/29\/apple-patents-for-magic-mouse-un-earthed\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Patents for Magic Mouse Un-Earthed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Patent Office has today revealed via Patently Apple<\/a> two patents for Apple’s Magic Mouse. <\/p>\n

Released in October 2009, the Apple magic mouse<\/a> was the successor of the mighty mouse<\/a>, a revolution in mouse design. The two patents unveiled today<\/a> both reference optical tracking, stating that the company’s decision to include laser tracking was that of a last minute decision.<\/p>\n

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The mouse could also include a mechanism for data selection in the UI. The mouse could allow the user to make a selection in the UI on the display screen by moving the pointer. For example, a touch sensitive mouse could include a touch sensor panel, which could include a panel of touch sensors and a touch sensitive surface covering a portion or substantially the entire top surface of the mouse, to make a selection. The touch sensor panel could detect a touch event and the surface location of the touch event using the touch sensors and could send the touch event information to the computing system. The computing system could interpret the touch event and thereafter perform one or more operations based on the touch event. By way of example, a data selection operation, such as a scroll operation, could be performed when a scroll motion is detected on the touch sensitive surface of the mouse. In an alternate example, a mouse scroll wheel may be used to make a selection in the UI on the display screen. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since its introduction in 2009, the magic mouse has been praised for both its ease of use and ability to compute a user’s touch to precise pin-point accuracy.<\/p>\n

[via Patently Apple<\/a> and @Viticci]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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