The US Patent and Trademark Office recently published a series of new patents for Apple. The last of them were those that heralded great development In the charging cable. Today, we are talking about a new patent for the addition of side buttons that operate with force of touch, or what is called "force sensitive", which allows the removal of the volume up and down button on the iPhone.
Apple explains this step that these "virtual" buttons are able to detect and measure the force of finger pressure on them and then execute a specific command. These buttons are designed for future generations of iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch if Apple has already implemented the patent.
In fact, this patent is an extension of similar patents submitted by Apple concerning the designs of button structures such as the volume buttons, the operation button and the switch button, the method and method of operation, and its various features. As well as the addition of other similar input buttons that work with force of touch. All of this can be seen in future generations of different Apple devices.
Apple envisions in the patent a device like the iPad that features standard elements known to everyone such as a touch screen, a central processor, switches for operation and volume, in addition to various input buttons placed on one side of the device. Apple calls this invention a streamlined surface.
Apple states that these buttons are paired with the processor and are configured to accept several different types of inputs, and they may be compatible with the device’s structure and provide more options using multiple touch methods such as long touch, little pressure, light touch, etc.
Among the models shown, Apple hints at the next generation of the Apple Watch, it is possible that these powerful touch buttons will replace the digital crown button. Incidentally, Apple filed a patent in 2016 for the Apple Watch, which is the presence of buttons that also operate with strong touch instead of the digital crown. In this patent, Apple focuses on the details of the touch sensors of the iPad and the Apple Watch, and the mechanism of their work in terms of sensing the force of pressure and distinguishing between pressures to carry out multiple tasks.
There is no doubt that this patent and its ilk is a deliberate policy implicitly from Apple, which is called a "phone without buttons" to cancel all the buttons from its devices, as it did before, and it canceled the home button and the switch button in order to reduce the openings and buttons, which leads to a better phone. But of course it remains to be mentioned what we always repeat, which is that we do not when these patents are applied, maybe they will be in the next generation or the generations that follow, or it is just the registration of patents to prevent opponents from implementing the same ideas.
What do you think of Apple's patent? Would you prefer a buttonless device in the future? Let us know in the comments
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This invention is for iPhone XNUMXS. Thank you
We hope that Apple will choose the "restart" instead of the stunts in the 8 and x devices. It would have been better for it to make the restart an additional option within the menu that appears during continuous pressure and then pulling, such as turning off the power. In other words, it makes the restart two functions, the first By pulling and the second for emergency by pressing the buttons.
True, the restart has become complicated and its method can be easily forgotten .. I agree with you 👍
Yvonne Islam Soo, an article reviewing all the things that Apple introduced after the word one more thing and their impact on technology and the world
She did not offer anything, my Apple lover, I repeated the iPhone for 4 consecutive years with the same design with the addition of minor marginal features every year, then her genius was born after all these years with the very normal iPhone x phone and the same thing for the iPad and other devices. Marginal features that are not useful to the user.
This is everything that I have summarized for you in simple words, so the topic cannot bear a complete article about it 😄
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And the watch isn't one more think?
And the Apple Pencil isn't one more think?
And your home bot, earphone, and charger isn't one more think?
Are these products considered valuable and important? We are talking about basic, important products, may God bless you
It is not important to you ,, but to others it is important and has value
I liked this news very much, and I prefer to see a phone without any buttons as possible
I read a year ago that Steve Jobs' philosophy is to reduce the buttons as much as possible, and he used to criticize old phones with many buttons and see them as complicated, and that because of this philosophy he was determined to make a phone without a real keyboard in order to get rid of its buttons, so he came out with his touch phone. I think if he had been alive for now, we would have seen this particular innocence several years ago :)
It is true that I completely agree with you, and if he was still alive, we would have seen Apple in a completely different situation in all respects, as everything changed for the worse after his death and the arrival of Tim Cook👍
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Haha, he said, "A test blessing," he said
You have forgotten that this technology is taken from one of the Android phones, the HTC U11, and it is called squeeze.
Sahih brother Muhammad 👍
What are the most Apple patents and what we see less of them .. Everything is offered to the user with great miserliness in the form of drops every year by drop, in order to absorb the largest amount of profits and continue to deplete their customers annually, and despite this repetition and scarcity of features, they are not cheap as well 😏
I agree with you, Apple never forsakes its scarce dripping method of presenting its advantages that we take for goodness after we have sharpened it fifty times
As for inventions and their patents, I think that it is not necessary that every patent we hear about now must see it on the ground immediately in new releases, perhaps this patent is in its early stages and is still developing by Apple, I remember an article by iPhone Islam issued about a month ago, and it has been It was stated in one of its paragraphs that the feature of making calls without a SIM, but with a virtual chip in the third generation Apple Watch, was known in 2013, but it did not see the light until 2017 !! New features or new patents require time of study and development so that you can see the light
Undoubtedly, but I mean the features that are presented very little in relation to the large balance of patents and their continuous increase, and this is a deliberate policy, of course from Apple. Thank you, sister, Nour 🌹👍
True, very little too
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It is clear from your responses that your knowledge of the market and technology is superficial, brother .. For information, every company has its own policy at work, for example Apple used to adopt a policy of tick-tock, which is that the product is coming down and the year after it is downloading an update. Now, the policy has changed to Tic Tac Tok, meaning that the product that comes out develops for two years and then It is changed if you notice what is happening with iPhones in recent years, then you will understand what I mean .. Secondly, patents in Western countries are carried out by companies on anything even if a product does not think of producing it soon, but to guarantee its right in the event that it used it after years or someone preceded it with his work and this is The movement earns some companies millions. There is a person who sustains from this movement, a company worker, and every day submits a patent for something that he did in reality, and any company that has the same idea and produces a real product that sues it and takes millions and its issue ends .. It may be a patent for an invention of a technology in the stage of labor and when It will be completed and mature, it will be used as you know the technology is developing on a daily basis .. As for the subject of the train, we have the financial ability to buy Apple products, and praise be to God, even if they are in the train, we will continue to buy their products annually. You are not required to buy from them as long as you do not like Mint Her style or her style. Were it not for the different tastes, the commodities would have been satisfied. Thank you
All of Apple's patents are so wonderful if it launched it soon, imagine that there is an iPhone in which all these patents in addition to the above is really amazing thing, but Apple is poor with its users and does not give them much !! And of course the best device without buttons, we hope so soon 👍
Unfortunately, Apple, my brother Omar, cannot do that and you know it well .. The features come with a dropper every year, a small drop, and sometimes only a smell on the dryers The device does not differ clearly until after three or four releases. If they made its release every four years like the World Cup, it would have been better ☺️
The expression is sumptuous and subtle
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The problem is the silent button, what is its fate ??
It may be canceled just as it canceled the handset outlet and the fingerprint button despite its clients ’adherence to it, so Apple does not care about the opinion of its customers, rather it does what it deems appropriate .. The principle of guardianship is in place and strongly in it, not only by the system and its restrictions, by the technology of the devices also as if it tells its customers that you do not know what is best for you .. We are the ones who know We define everything and you have to accept it and get used to it
All are patents that do not provide or delay. Apple will not do this thing soon
It is true, I agree with you, brother Ahmed
This invention has been haunting me since the launch of the iPhone XNUMX
We are supposed to see these inventions soon, because the touch sensors have evolved to make them worthy of canceling all the buttons.
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This is the invention imposed in the iPhone X
Beautiful .. Perhaps this and other invention improves and develops the next iPhones, thank you 🌹
What are the features you want on the iPhone ?!
Or shape and design?
I hope to see something revolutionary, technology, and entirely new technologies in the world of phones, and a completely new design that is characterized by beauty and striking awe. This is all I wish for every user who is tired of the repetition and boring that Apple has lived with us