Apple and Microsoft file patent applications

e14news — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 04:41:18 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by e14news on 10/8/2021 4:41:18 AM
Technology giants Apple and Microsoft are locked in a new patent race over touchless gesture-controls, wireless communication device users will be interested to know.

New ways to control devices that do not involve physical contact have been revealed in recently-released patent filings.

Microsoft described waving one's hands to "draw" three-dimensional objects on a device.

Apple, on the other hand, has created a design that allows users to "throw" content from one device to another.

Reflecting on the desire of technology firms to secure touchless patent rights, Chris Green, a technology analyst at Davies Murphy Group, said: "It's interesting that so many companies are actually investing some very serious time and money into it."

He added: "But the jury is still out on whether this whole waving-your-hands-in-the-air will have a long term future outside computer games, and it's still very much a work in progress."

The US Patent and Trademark Office has made the patent applications public.

Posted by Simon Jones