Andre Yoskowitz
15 Feb 2009 20:37
Apple has been sued again over their hugely popular iPhone, this time over the screen rendering technology used in both the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
The suit, brought forward by Picsel Technologies, alleges that the rendering process is in clear violation of Piscel's patents. Picsel added the "technology accelerates the process of updating the display on a device."
Lawyers for the company said iPhone users "would experience long screen update delays if it weren’t for the use of the patented technology. Zooming and panning documents, Web sites, and images would not work on the iPhone as fluidly."
Picsel adds that its technology is featured in hundreds of different gadgets and counts KDDI, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Palm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Sharp as past and current customers.
The company is asking for monetary compensation for each unit already sold.