{"id":646030,"date":"2013-03-08T23:46:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T04:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=364579"},"modified":"2013-03-08T23:46:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T04:46:23","slug":"google-files-patent-for-back-panel-smartphone-touch-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646030","title":{"rendered":"Google files patent for back-panel smartphone touch controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/08\/google-back-panel-touch-control-patent-364579\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"526\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/google-back-touch-patent.png?w=650&amp;h=526&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Google Back Panel Touch\" title=\"Google Back Panel Touch Control Patent\" \/><\/a><\/center>Touch displays <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/04\/20\/next-generation-iphone-to-utilize-new-display-technology\/\">are obviously terrific<\/a>, but there are times when it would be great to have an alternative way to navigate on our smartphones, especially if we don&#8217;t want to muck up our screens with greasy fingerprints. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patentbolt.com\/2013\/03\/google-in-race-with-apple-to-bring-backside-controls-to-devices.html\"><em>Patent Bolt<\/em> has found<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=goog\">GOOG<\/a>) is apparently following <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple&#8217;s<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aapl\">AAPL<\/a>) lead by working on a technology that provides smartphone touch controls on the back panel of the device instead of on the front display. <em>Patent Bolt<\/em> notes that the back-panel controls would obviously perform simple tasks since it would be difficult to type words if you can see a keypad. However, <em>Patent Bolt<\/em> says that the controls could allow you to &#8220;turn a page of an ebook, article on the web or flip to &#8216;next&#8217; or &#8216;previous&#8217; views of photos,&#8221; among other things. The technology <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/17\/google-project-glass-patent-projector-294369\/\">outlined in Google&#8217;s patent<\/a> is similar to technology outlined in a patent filed by Apple in 2006, although so far Apple hasn&#8217;t developed any sort of back-panel controls for either the iPhone or the iPad.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/374bwtvMqhs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Touch displays are obviously terrific, but there are times when it would be great to have an alternative way to navigate on our smartphones, especially if we don&#8217;t want to muck up our screens with greasy fingerprints. Patent Bolt has found that Google (GOOG) is apparently following Apple&#8217;s (AAPL) lead by working on a technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}