Apple Inc. is reported to be building a 3D camera that will enable users to capture normal photos and make three-dimensional renderings. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has revealed the interest of Apple in capturing 3D images with three new patent applications, namely the Image Capture Using Three-Dimensional Reconstruction; Systems, Methods, and Computer-Readable...
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Apple Inc. has won a close battle against Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp. in their battle for smartphone patents after the United States International Trade Commission (US ITC) found that HTC has infringed one of the patents of Apple. The ITC ruled that HTC violated an Apple patent for a “system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer...
British Telecom (BT) has filed a lawsuit against search engine giant Google, alleging that its Android mobile operating system and its other services violate the telecommunications company’s patents. BT, who filed the lawsuit in Delaware in the United States, said that Google’s Android infringed six of its key patents, including Google Music, location-based...
A number of Apple products have been in the limelight for quite a while now, with rumors of a next-generation product even before the company unveils another. How about other Apple products like the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle? The last we heard news about one of the two is before the company unveils the iPhone 4S, where rumors have surfaced that Apple will be discontinuing...
The US Patent and Trademark Office has published a new patent awarded to Microsoft that points out to an interesting future for fans of the Windows Phone 7 platform. The patent, which was files in March of last year, would enable easily swappable accessories for mobile phones that run Microsoft’s mobile operating system. Microsoft’s new patent, called “Mobile...
Last week, internet search giant Google wrote a blog post calling out Apple, Microsoft, Oracle and other companies for using “bogus patents” to try and fight its Android mobile operating system. Some of these patents include those which were acquired from Novell. Microsoft was then quick to respond to these accusations, saying that they tried to get the company...
Apple may have unintentionally leaked the design for its upcoming iPhone 5 smartphone in a patent application in Australia, reports say. According to Australian tech site SmartHouse, the Cupertino tech giant has prematurely filed patents for its iPhone 5 smartphone in Australia after the company’s bad experience with its government. According to the application filed...
Google Inc. has accused Apple, Oracle, Microsoft and other companies of running a “hostile, organized campaign” against it by using bogus patents acquired from Nortel to make Android smartphones more expensive. David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer and senior vice president, claims that the companies are imposing tax to increase the price of Android-powered...
Apple Inc. has filed a patent for a new 3D gesture control type and a ‘physics metaphor’ control. It will not be comping to the iPhone 5 or the third generation iPad because it is still under development. According to a report by tech website Patently Apple, “On July 7, 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application...
The future of free apps which are upgradable to paid versions is likely to be resolved in the next couple of weeks, and all thanks to US patent no. 7,222,078. What is that patent, we hear you ask. Well, it comes from a firm called Lodsys and it seems that these guys have got the “methods and systems for gathering information from units of a commodity across a network”...