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Apple granted patent for even smarter iPad cover, with built-in display & sketchpad

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<p>Apple has today been granted a <a href="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;co1=AND&amp;d=PTXT&amp;s1=9335793&amp;OS=9335793&amp;RS=9335793" target="_blank">patent[/url] for an iPad Smart Cover with more smarts than usual: it incorporates a built-in display, and even a Wacom-style drawing tablet.</p>
<p>The patent illustrates a number of different ways the Smart Cover display could be used, from simply extending the iPad’s own display through text-only displays of things like reminders to a combined display and touchpad. Some of the options show the display acting as a full input device too, allowing both handwritten notes and drawings.</p>
<p>While we of course add our usual disclaimer that Apple patents way more things than it actually makes, two element of this patent have actually made it into production …</p>
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