ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. RE50,436, issued on May 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Information processing method and apparatus" was invented by Ken-ichi Abe (Tokyo) and Katsutoshi Nagato (Tachikawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus comprising a touch screen which detects a touch input by a user detects the position and pressure of each of a plurality of pressed points corresponding to a plurality of touch inputs existing at the same time on a touch screen. Then, the front/rear overlap relationship of the plurality of objects displayed on the touch screen is changed based on the difference in pressure between the detect...