Change orientation: Apple patents a stylus for touch screen

The new patent applications for Apple, the iPhone Stylus end of the era, the company's interest can be traced to the pen input.
Apple is developing several stylus compatible with the iPhone and the iPad, including the stylus to the handle, which has built-in feedback, according to AppleInsider citing patent applications.

Interestingly, the interest in the pen input, Apple came several years after the company launched a iPhone, the first device with a touch screen, essentially costing a stylus.

In the first of the applications described by the pen with a tiny built-in camera that allows you to increase the accuracy of product management. But a much higher interest is another application called Haptic Input Device ("Input Device with Feedback").

Stating that at the touch of the usual touch-screen user feels a hard surface, engineers have proposed to equip the vibration function is not very mobile device, and a pen. As planned, the pen must receive signals from a device with a touch screen and vibrating properly, so that the user gets the feeling that it deals with various objects and textures on the screen.

"This input device can help you deal with the content shown in the screen and create a more vivid and realistic impression" - said in a patent application filed in the Office of the U.S. Patent and Trademark (USPTO) in November 2010 The second application was also filed in 2010

As notes The Register, the date of filing means that the development was carried out stylus during the life of the former head of Apple's Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs), who was opposed to such controls. Actually, no iPhone, no iPad does not have a stylus and operated solely by hand.

We add that the placement of applications in the USPTO does not mean that Apple intends to sell patented technology into commercial products.