Oliver Shultz
11 May 2012, 16:16
A new Apple patent has surfaced that hints iOS may be getting a facial recognition security update. The patent is titled “3-D Object Recognition” and is said to describe a new way to generate 3-D facial models using 2-D images. The patent was originally filed by a firm called Polar Rose from Sweden that Apple purchased in 2010.
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Apple patent hints at facial recognition security update for iOS
A new Apple patent has surfaced that hints iOS may be getting a facial recognition security update. The patent is titled “3-D Object Recognition” and is said to describe a new way to generate 3-D facial models using 2-D images. The patent was originally filed by a firm called Polar Rose from Sweden that Apple purchased in 2010.
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Oliver Shultz
03 May 2012, 13:51
It seems that even the courts are getting sick of Apple and Samsung’s bickering over patent issues. Both companies have been ordered by a US judge to once again try and reduce the number of claims against each other by Monday. The trial is scheduled to start on July 30th, but the judge presiding over the case has ordered the two smartphone manufacturers to try and streamline the case before everything kicks off.
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Apple and Samsung asked to streamline patent case
It seems that even the courts are getting sick of Apple and Samsung’s bickering over patent issues. Both companies have been ordered by a US judge to once again try and reduce the number of claims against each other by Monday. The trial is scheduled to start on July 30th, but the judge presiding over the case has ordered the two smartphone manufacturers to try and streamline the case before everything kicks off.
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Oliver Shultz
30 March 2012, 18:26
I’m betting this is really good news for smartphone makers. Open-source poster boy Linus Torvalds stepped up and helped stop a Microsoft patent from being used to choke licensing fees out of other companies. The patent Microsoft owns is being used to force Google Android and Linux handset users to pay licensing fees.
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Linus Torvalds rains on Microsoft’s patent parade
I’m betting this is really good news for smartphone makers. Open-source poster boy Linus Torvalds stepped up and helped stop a Microsoft patent from being used to choke licensing fees out of other companies. The patent Microsoft owns is being used to force Google Android and Linux handset users to pay licensing fees.
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Oliver Shultz
27 March 2012, 00:05
It is a plot that we see several times every week.
An old patent gets snapped up by someone who creates a company around it and sues a bunch of easy targets to extract license fees in the hope that their potential victims want to avoid perhaps even higher fees following a court ruling. This here is one remarkable example.
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Patent Troll Sues Apple, Dell, HP, 21 Others Over Automation
It is a plot that we see several times every week.
An old patent gets snapped up by someone who creates a company around it and sues a bunch of easy targets to extract license fees in the hope that their potential victims want to avoid perhaps even higher fees following a court ruling. This here is one remarkable example.
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Oliver Shultz
25 March 2012, 11:21
Facebook is next to dip into IBM's deep pool of patents and acquire the rights to about 750 inventions.
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Facebook Acquires Hundreds of Patents from IBM
Facebook is next to dip into IBM's deep pool of patents and acquire the rights to about 750 inventions.
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Oliver Shultz
22 March 2012, 12:13
It's not quite Deus Ex, but it's still pretty weird (or cool): a tattoo that vibrates in sync with your phone. This idea comes from a patent filed by Nokia, and recently uncovered by Unwired View.
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Nokia patents high tech cybernetic tattoo
It's not quite Deus Ex, but it's still pretty weird (or cool): a tattoo that vibrates in sync with your phone. This idea comes from a patent filed by Nokia, and recently uncovered by Unwired View.
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Oliver Shultz
29 January 2012, 22:54
The little downside of a touchscreen keyboard is you can’t feel it physically. That’s why some users may prefer older models of BlackBerry devices that have physical keyboards which they can feel physically and type faster. Anyway, Apple have their way to build a better virtual touchscreen keyboard that allows you to feel its keys physically.
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Apple patent physically feel-able virtual touchscreen keyboard
The little downside of a touchscreen keyboard is you can’t feel it physically. That’s why some users may prefer older models of BlackBerry devices that have physical keyboards which they can feel physically and type faster. Anyway, Apple have their way to build a better virtual touchscreen keyboard that allows you to feel its keys physically.
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