G06F 2203/04104
Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a
Official title: Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
G06F2203/04104 (Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a) appears on 2,915 US grants and 3,564 published applications in this corpus.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for integrating manual input3,711US 6,323,846 B1University of Delaware · 2001
- Multipoint touchscreen3,397US 7,663,607 B2Apple Inc. · 2010
- Multiple fingers contact sensing method for emulating mouse buttons and mouse operations on a touch sensor pad2,510US 5,825,352 ALogitech, Inc. · 1998
- Operation of a computer with touch screen interface1,280US 7,614,008 B2Apple Inc. · 2009
- Multipoint touch surface controller1,096US 8,279,180 B2Apple Inc. · 2012