Apple patents some kind of pen-based digital ink thing

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

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Apple-pen-aware-tabletClearly this is either an old patent or a Macguffin because whatever this thing is it’s not the iPad. Basically you’ve got some sort of tablet app for recognizing pen input in phrases instead of in “chunks.”

UnwiredReview found the patent and shared it with the whole wide world.

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