Apple's latest patent exposure: Mac control gestures

According to the foreign media 9to5Mac, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially announced a series of new patents today, including a patent from Apple Inc. on the use of gestures to control Macs, which are owned by Micha Galor, Jonathan Pokrass and Amir Hoffnung, They all came from PrimeSense, which developed Microsoft's Kinect sensor and was acquired by Apple in 2013.

It is understood that PrimeSense also involved in the development of some Face ID behind some of the technology, this latest patent was originally submitted in December 2016, it seems to rely on a Mac device on a similar iPhone X TrueDepth camera system.

This new Apple patent covers inventions related to the computer system user interface, and in particular, the 3D-based user interface More specifically, this patent relates to a method of executing a non-tactile 3D user interface via a computer, Group gestures contain multiple 3D coordinates.

This patent describes a non-haptic 3D user interface transitioning from a locked state to an unlocked state with one gesture (which includes ascending movement in the vertical axis of the space) Once in use, the user will be able to control the Mac with additional gestures The gesture shown in the patent map is to push, wield and raise one hand.

We've already seen that Apple has applied for a patent on Face ID using a Mac, which was released even before the iPhone X debut, a further move than simply unlocking it's worth mentioning that another report showed Face ID may also appear on the future HomePod.

As usual, we have no way of determining which patent Apple will adopt, but Jobs's objection to the touch-screen Mac seems to apply to it as well, a tiring way to control even Apple's adoption Seems also quite limited.