Apple?s Advanced Multitouch Gesturing Control Panel in Mac OS X Mock-up.

Although it is still far away from Nokia's touchless screen patent of which we already had a pleasure to write in one of our articles, Apple's Advanced Multitouch Gesturing Control Panel is still a step forward. MacRumours.com is showing a Mock-up of patent created by Wayne Westerman of Fingerwoks - company bought by Apple in 2006. The mock-up reveals the possibilities of setting up standard trackpad, basic multitouch, and advanced multitouch controls. While the basic multitouch controls are already known to Apple's consumers, advanced multitouch controls are still to be introduced in new products.

By using four finger swipes up/down/left/right the user can control Expose and Dashboard.



Using a Thumb or Forefinger one can control all operations on file.



Editing operations such as Copy, Cut, Paste, Undo, Select All, Tab, and Cancel can be performed using a Thumb and two fingers.



The Advanced Multitouch Gesturing Control Panel is also claimed to distinguish different finger combinations (eg. adjacent and non-adjacent finger presses). Also the fourth finger creates its separate pattern and can be used for controlling functions like adjusting volume or putting the computer to sleep.

Apple is said to expand its basic multitouch solutions to the rest of their notebook product line. However nothing has been officially stated on the eventual implementation of the advanced multitouch controls.

Thanks to: www.macrumours.com