http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/ Engadget Comments for Apple patents "visual buttons" to blend display and interface http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 17th 2006 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 17th 2006 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/
A visual interface, with illuminated sections that display data, but also accept physical input, be it pressing, or sliding motions.]]>Aug 17th 2006 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 17th 2006 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 17th 2006 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/]]>Aug 17th 2006 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1973]]>Aug 17th 2006 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 17th 2006 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/
how will this not be filthy with smudges?]]>Aug 17th 2006 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 17th 2006 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/
Hey that's nothing, I patented the idea of a single divine entity and I'm looking forward to suing all those Middle Easterners and right-wing Bible-belt Americans. I think I may also have a patent on publications that claim to be divinely inspired. Oh and I need to get around to suing Hollywood for making movies off of my divine entity. Wow, I have a lot work to do. Oh I also need to put together a company and get listed on the stock market so I can be like SCO [Ticker: SCOX] whose stock is at 2.60 which is quite a steal.

The end ... might I add that Immersion sucks just as much as SCO. The United States patent system sucks and people were warning us about it years ago. Then some of us citizens in the United States voted for Bush and so on goes the story.]]>Aug 17th 2006 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 17th 2006 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 17th 2006 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 17th 2006 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 17th 2006 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/
BTW, Creative had their patent on the Zen interface for music players way before the iPod came out, and they werent trying to patent file folders. Its more ocmplicated than that.]]>Aug 17th 2006 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 17th 2006 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.jazzmutant.com/lemur_overview.php]]>Aug 17th 2006 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/

Notice the part at the bottom that says "patents pending."

I don't see how Apple got this approved.]]>Aug 17th 2006 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 17th 2006 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 17th 2006 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/
As if Apple would allow all that smudging.]]>Aug 17th 2006 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/
WTF is the patent office doing... doesn't this fall under the realm of 'obvious'?]]>Aug 17th 2006 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/
**** Apple annouces to start using Intel chips and drops Power PC chips = If you can't beat them than join them.

Windows = 98% usuage
Mac = 2% usuage]]> Apple]]>Aug 17th 2006 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/I thought they were just an mp3 player company.]]>Aug 17th 2006 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 17th 2006 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/
Application]]>Aug 17th 2006 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/That patent is kind of (kind of?!) vague
I'm going to have to patent the idea of subitting chicken scratches and descriptive dialogue to a mess of bureaucracy in an attempt to stifle innovation. And yes, stifle. Sure, people are innovators, but when you patent the basics what's left to innovate?
Toss this in the pile of things apple and sony have done to piss me off. Right next to the pile of things that microsoft has disappointed me with. Which, Ironically, is right next to the pile of the linux tutorials I was too lazy to read in order to be free.]]>Aug 17th 2006 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/
first there were iPod socks, now iPod Gloves (patent pending)]]>Aug 17th 2006 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 17th 2006 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/
http://www.dcontinuum.com/eu/portfolio.php?id=29]]>Aug 17th 2006 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/
but this isn't a patent on a touchscreen. it's more like if the current ipod clickable scroll wheel happened to have a display on it. now tell me... does the U10 do that? does this magical Sony camera do that? no. those are touchscreens. this isn't.

learn to read people. your anti-apple zealotry gets in the way of basic understanding.]]>Aug 17th 2006 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 17th 2006 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 17th 2006 9:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 17th 2006 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/x23, I hadn't heard of the U10 before it was mentioned here. So I googled it, which meant I avoided falsely accusing people of being mistaken.

Check out the U10. It's doing what this patent is describing - not touch screen, but actual buttons.

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The patent is describing a button thats also a screen, which means that in case of the click wheel, the wheel itself would also be a screen.

The U10 on the other hand has a screen that can be pushed down on the right and the left. There are buttons underneath the display which are pushed by pushing down the whole screen on either side.

Basically, the U10 is just a regular LCD tha has been placed on top of the buttons as opposed to the patent which is describing the buttons themselves to be screens.]]>Aug 18th 2006 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/
]]>Aug 18th 2006 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 19th 2006 1:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/Aug 20th 2006 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/17/apple-patents-visual-buttons-to-blend-display-and-interface/solution H2O (Pat. Pending)

Ok, since everything cool on the Internet has been patented -- I will just go and make my pet cat run around chasing my laser pointer...

Darn - that's patented, too.

When will someone at the US PTO get a clue?

Really, I'm NOT making this up - Pat. No. 6,651,591

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,651,591.PN.&OS=PN/6,651,591&RS=PN/6,651,591]]>Oct 10th 2006 1:14AM