New Apple touch display patent

January 7th, 2010 admin
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Filed under: Hardware , Odds and ends , Apple Patently Apple has the news that Apple has filed for another touchscreen display patent , but here’s the catch: this one’s probably not for a tablet! Or at least, not for the tablet we’re expecting. The patent, which covers the idea of a thinner and brighter touchscreen display by combining the touch and pixel display elements (basically including the capacitive and pixel elements in the same hardware), could actually be used in any …


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