Apple filed an international patent that indicates the possibility of Apple innovating a touch-screen iMac, in which the features of the original iMac join with the touch capabilities that has made the company's iPod Touch and iPad famous. iPad mobile devices contain the ability to move between Apple's OS X operating system, used in its iMac desktop computers due to its iOS operating systems.
www.patentlyapple.com is the website of Patently Apple, specializing in finding and analyzing Apple patents. According to Patently Apple, “Apple applied for a patent that would allow the iMac to switch between a hi-resolution mouse input mode and a low-resolution touch-screen mode.” Apple said, “it invented the ability to transition between touch-based input and mouse/keyboard-based input by using an accelerometer in a touch screen display to sense a change in its orientation”, in the patent, which was filed internationally on 9 July 2009.
A touch-screen iMac is on the wish-list of Apple fans or general computer users out there. These patents may focus on the hinge of a touch-screen-based iMac; they still suggest that Apple is certainly working on the technology to bring the new hardware to market. When user switch between a horizontal or vertical display positions, substance exterior the display are of the screen can slide or be pushed off the screen and be retrieved when the original orientation is restored.
For instance, for mouse and keypad work, Apple wrote in the application, the user may wish the exhibit to be comparatively far away and in an upright situation. But, for touch-screen use, the user may wish for the screen to be closer and lay flat. "For example, to enter touch input the user might want to pull the screen closer and push the display screen down flat, as if the screen is a book the user is reading," Apple wrote in the patent application.
Apple wrote, “A host computer connected to such a display could also sense the change and perform any number of actions as a result”. Such actions include "logging onto a computer or a computer network, permitting authorized individuals access to restricted areas of the computer or computer network, loading a user profile associated with a user's preferred arrangement of the computer desktop, (or) launching a particular program," Apple wrote.
Patently Apple said, “The result of such technology would be the ability to transition from OS X to iOS.” "Imagine having an iMac on your desktop one minute and a gigantic iPad the next. Imagine playing iGames on this dream machine - Wow! Imagine reading a double-page book on this - Unbelievable!" Patently Apple wrote.
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Anonymous — Fri, 08/27/2010 - 09:28it z whiz kid... i love d idea of grabbing d screen 2 get stuck in to iOS and pushing it away to go OS X. so simple when you think about it; but no other tech company seems to 'get it' quite like apple.