The patent filing, labelled “Real Time Video Process Control Using Gestures,” explains Apple’s method of controlling a device from a distance. “As with the touch based gestures applied on or near the touch sensitive input device, the hand gestures can be interpreted to provide instructions for real time processing of the video by the video capture device,” a portion from the filing reads.
The filing adds placing a finger on a touch-sensitive display “can cause a video capture device to move, and that movement is then translated to the video recording,” as Appleinsider notes.
This patent suggest a remote camera could be manipulated wirelessly from a separate device. An iPhone or iPad are mentioned in the filing as potential options for a “control device.”
For example, a video of two tennis players playing against each other “could be analyzed to have a negative correlation, as one player is hitting the ball while the other is not,” Appleinsider writes.
“Therefore, by determining the relative correlation between these two players, an implicit association can be assigned to each,” the application says.
The filing, made public this week, was originally submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in April 2010.
