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Sony Gets Patent for 'Simulated Parallaxing' to Unlock Smartphones

Sony landed U.S. patent 10,083,288 for a method of unlocking a smartphone using a “simulated parallaxing” 3D scene on the touch screen, Patent and Trademark Office records show. It describes dragging a finger on the parallaxing 3D scene to reveal…

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a hidden “predetermined target object.” Manipulating the object through finger “gestures” can “satisfy the input requirements to unlock the electronic device if the revealing of the hidden object is accomplished by two or more distinct motions performed in a predetermined order,” it said. Sony didn’t comment Wednesday.