Apple has patented Fusion Keyboard - touch keyboard with Force Touch

US Patent and Trademark Office today issued Apple a patent for unusual input device. At this time, engineers have documented the invention with the touch keyboard working name Fusion Keyboard. The main task of device - to combine the trackpad and, in fact, the keyboard, leaving one computer input device.

Each key on a keyboard is a small touchpad. This feature allows the keyboard to recognize familiar to trackpad gestures: swipe, pinch-to-zoom, and so on. In addition, all of the buttons on the Fusion Keyboard has two pressing level. Thus the technology is implemented Force TouchUsed in modern trackpad Apple. However, while more severe depression is recognized as a standard mouse click, not as a customary additional function call.

Fusion Keyboard also has features of the software. So, a special algorithm recognizes the separate right and left hand of the user and enables one-handed typing, and the second - to control the cursor on the touch surface.

Given that Apple has filed a patent application in 2011, the company would have long abandoned the idea of ​​combining the keyboard and trackpad. However, Apple plans are always hard to predict.

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