In the past, Apple actually reported a technical patent, which will create a border that can correspond to touch operation, and it will be displayed again before the contents of American trademarks and patent office documents. Apple is really interested in the touch operation mode of the border.
However, it has been reported for some time that Apple plans to apply edge touch design in its products, but no products have adopted this technology yet. On the contrary, U 1 1 launched by HTC last year was equipped with Edge Sense, and Google later launched Pixel 2 with the same function, but the name was changed to Active Edge.
According to the contents of the document published earlier by the US Trademark and Patent Office, Apple will adopt the same extrusion operation design on the touch interface of the border, basically continuing the patent contents of 20 13 and 20 16 applications, and will distinguish different operation modes by the extrusion force of the border, which is roughly similar to the design proposed by HTC. Since Apple has applied for technology patents in the past, this is not a formal theft of HTC's design.
According to the description of the related patent technology with the number of 20180164166, Apple plans to apply the 3D Touch multi-force pressing function to the frame of the fuselage, or to the metal or plastic shell for different pressing positions.
If Apple is expected to launch a new machine designed with this patented technology in the future, it may make the iPhone have more meta-operation modes, not just relying on screen touch. At the same time, it can further simplify the edge buttons and make the waterproof effect of the whole mobile phone concrete, but the design difficulty of related protective shell accessories may also increase.