Apple has patented a new system based on gesture or natural pulsation that allows users move objects from your iPhone or iPad, to interact with objects on screen. The gesture could be used for a large number of tasks, including letter-by-letter text selection, so longed for by all of us.
Released by the US Patent and Trademark Office this Tuesday, the patent called "Fine-tuning an operation based on tapping", describes a system for mobile devices that solves some of the problems we face with smartphones and touch tablets.
Specifically, the patent that you can see in the following link No. 9,086,738, the gestures based on single touch, focus on the controls for a single touch or 'tap' in English, which would be easy to carry out on a touch screen, such as the selecting a single character in a line of text.
A user is able to move an object on the screen left or right with extreme precision, perhaps by pushing an area, or tapping on the side of an iPhone. As AppleInsider explains.
Users who tap on the side of their device, not the screen, the gestures would be detected by the gyroscope and accelerometer. And as we say in the title of the post, just by touching a position in the text, cursor would stay in that position.