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本帖最后由 doocoo 于 2011-12-20 23:13 编辑
Tempestglen 发表于 2011-12-20 19:58 ![]()
打个比方,你今天看到离婚4年的前妻领着和别人生的3岁小孩,是一种心情,看到5岁的小孩,是另一种心情。
... 中文版维基写得很简略,会让人看不清情况,请看英文版的Multitouch介绍:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitouch
Multi-touch technology began in 1982, when the University of Toronto's Input Research Group developed the first human-input multi-touch system. In 1983, Bell Labs at Murray Hill published a comprehensive discussion of touch-screen based interfaces.[6] In 1984, Bell Labs engineered a touch screen that could change images with more than one hand. In 1985, the University of Toronto group including Bill Buxton developed a multi-touch tablet that used capacitance rather than bulky camera-based optical sensing systems.[2] A breakthrough occurred in 1991, when Pierre Wellner published a paper on his multi-touch “Digital Desk”, which supported multi-finger and pinching motions.[7][8] The company Fingerworks developed various multi-touch technologies between 1999 and 2005, including Touchstream keyboards and the iGesture Pad. Several studies of this technology were published in the early 2000s by Alan Hedge, professor of human factors and ergonomics at Cornell University. Apple acquired Fingerworks and its multi-touch technology in 2005. with Apple stating they 'invented multi touch' as part of the iPhone announcement,[12] however both the function and the term predate the announcement or patent requests, except for such area of application as capacitive mobile screens, which did not exist before Fingerworks/Apple's technology Microsoft's table-top touch platform Microsoft Surface, which started development in 2001, interacts with both the users touch and their electronic devices. (Apple filed patents for in 2005-2007 and was awarded with in 2009-2010). Publication and demonstration using the term Multi-touch by Jefferson Y. Han in 2005 predates these 简要翻译一下:
1、多点触控早在1983年就有研究,并早在1985年便有了实物。
2、1991年就有人写了篇论文,描述了多个手指同时操纵和“触摸手势”,2000年初Alan Hege对此做过大量研究工作。
3、Fingerworks公司在1999-2005年间生产了多款多点触控设备。后来这家公司被Apple收购。收购的包括产品和Fingerworks公司的具体实现技术。
4、微软从2001年开始研发Surface技术,可以多点与手指和电子设备交互。
5、Apple买了Fingerworks以后,把多点技术应用在iPhone上,并宣称是他们“发明了多点触控”。但事实上,这个词和相关技术却要早于iPhone。
6、苹果于2005-2007年申报了多点触控专利,在2009-2010年获得。
补充:苹果曾经想把“多点触控”注册为商标,但被拒绝,因为商标专利局认为这个词“可以广泛描述多种不同的产品”,并不具有“独特性”。
简而言之,这个早已被设计、发明出来的技术,被Apple称为是他们自己发明的。其实Fingerworks也好,Apple也好,都只是在前人基础上做了些优化改良而已。所获的专利,也只是具体实现技术的专利。
应当承认,是苹果把多点触控推向了大众,功劳甚大。但要说“苹果发明了多点触控”就不对了。
想把“MultiTouch”注册为商标,这是典型的苹果行为啊。
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