Patently Apple is reporting that Apple has applied for new multi-touch gesture patents titled “Hold then Swipe” and “Swipe then Hold”.
“Swipe then Hold” description:
In one example, a user may perform a “swipe then hold” touch input gesture, leaving a finger on the display screen of the electronic device. The electronic device then may pan and zoom onto any objects along a direction vector of the user’s swipe gesture or, more generally, along a directional path associated with the user’s swipe gesture. The user may vary the speed and/or direction of such cycling by moving the finger to the left or to the right and/or by tilting the orientation of the display screen.
“Hold then Swipe” is pretty self explanatory but the report claims that this may best be used on smaller displays.
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