The new Apple tablet PC which is set to be one of the hottest products scheduled for launch in 2010 will incorporate new hand recognition ink system according to new patents lodged by Apple.
The new Apple tablet PC which is set to be one of the hottest products scheduled for launch in 2010 will incorporate new hand recognition ink system according to new patents lodged by Apple.
The device which is expected to include a handwriting implement, is much anticipated by book, magazine and newspaper publishers, because of Apple’s patented touch screen technology which makes reading easier, on the new device which is expected in the first quarter of 2010.
A filing – released by the US Patent Office on Friday- describes an “ink manager” which receives “ink information entered at a pen-based input/display device” and turns them into “strokes” which are passed to a handwriting recognition system.
Experts are tipping a pen-based device – rather like Apple’s unsuccessful version of the 1990s, the Newton.
The experts are also tipping a computer with a normal-sized screen which dispenses with the standard keyboard, and instead takes its input by direct contact with the screen.
There has been increasing expectation that Apple will release a “tablet” style device for use in the home which will let people control other devices such as music, or see album covers in greater detail on a larger screen.
Record labels are understood to have lobbied Apple to build such a device as a method to boost music sales, to both sides’ benefit because it would boost sales of the devices and of digital downloads.
