Apple iPhone patent applications hint at live object identification and loads of other cool features

Posted by Technorati Search for: iPhone 3G on July 9, 2009

Apple’s published patent applications always makes for interesting reading. The iPhone maker’s latest patent applications hint at some really cool features possibly coming down the pipeline - chief among them, a live object identification technology that will allow you to point your iPhone camera at a real-world object to pull up information about that object. Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) also outlines technologies that will enable face recognition, event-based tasks, filtering of text messages, cross