Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
July 11, 2013 07:20 pm -04

Google files for touchscreen keyboard patent because it wants to own all the things

Google files for touchscreen keyboard patent because it wants to own all the things

Google dropped its touchscreen keyboard software onto the Play store for all Android comers just a little over a month ago and now it appears the Mountain View giant wants to own the tech behind it. A recently surfaced patent application, submitted in January of this year, outlines a method for determining finger placement in conjunction with touchscreen soft key input. And that's about as deep as the USPTO doc gets. It's not unfamiliar territory for Google which also filed for a separate patent back earlier this winter that detailed a full-finger, gesture-based touch keyboard -- likely for future implementation in tablets or Chromebooks.

Filed under: , , , ,

Comments


Original Link: http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/11/google-touchscreen-keyboard-patent-application/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

Engadget

Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics. Engadget was launched in March of 2004 in partnership with the Weblogs, Inc. Network (WI

More About this Source Visit Engadget