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By: bkobkobko

bkobkobko — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:47:21 +0000

There is a bunch more prior art:

A Sony tilting interface prototype published in 1996:

http://www.sonycsl.co.jp/person/rekimoto/papers…

I guess this just proves how truly broken our patent system is.

–Brian

By: macbeach

macbeach — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:11:30 +0000

They went to work at those companies AFTER the invention. That's the way I read it.

By: brianathasport

brianathasport — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:45:30 +0000

This will be an interesting story as it unfolds. My knee-jerk reaction is someone is in violation of their employment contract. Very curious.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:28:00 +0000

I don’t think this patent is valid. Many people were doing this experimentally before the 2001 priority date of this patent.

I saw Howard Samuels of Analog Devices demo a Palm outfitted with an accelerometer in 1999. The application written by TIll Harbaum was a marble on a tilting board. We discussed screen rotation specifically at that demo but the Palm hardware has a square display, so we talked about adapting it to Apple Newtons! We also talked about turning the pages of electronic book by “flipping” the device and opening a cell phone call by a motion similar to the old Star Trek communicator. Howard was very gracious in giving out samples of the accelerometer chip for people to try out on Palms and Newtons.

See this link for the software and construction notes:

http://www.harbaum.org/till/pa.....index.html

I think this work got a small write-up in Pen Computing or that other pen-based magazine with the tan cover whose name escapes me, so I believe it was published.

Someone with the money and the desire could likely invalidate this patent.

–Brian

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