Thursday, December 13, 2012

Human-computer interface designer: Jeff Han demos his breakthrough touchscreen at TED 2006




In the following video of the year 2006! Jeff Han shows off a cheap, scalable multi-touch and pressure-sensitive computer screen interface that may spell the end of point-and-click. After years of research on touch-driven computer displays, Jeff Han has created a simple, multi-touch, multi-user screen interface that just might herald the end of the point-and-click era.
The demo included a virtual lightbox, where he moved photos by fingertip - as if they were paper on a desk - flicking them across the screen and zooming in and out by pinching two fingers together, as well as a Google Earth-like map that he tilted and flew over with simple moves. When the demo hit the web, bloggers and YouTubers made him a bit of a megastar. (His video has been watched more than 600,000 times on YouTube alone).
This video seems to demonstrate prior art to Utility Patent 915, which was granted to Apple (as pointed out at http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-versus-samsung-2012-8) and was one of the patents that Samsung was found to have infringed on in a recent lawsuit. "Utility Patent 915: Distinguishes between single-touch and multi-touch gestures. 



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