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A new Apple patent filing suggests the company is continuing its work on motion compensation for screens, particularly touchscreens as found on the iPhone and iPod touch. The patent, entitled “Motion Compensation for Screens,” describes a method of combining motion data, touch data, and screen properties to make devices easier to use when they’re in motion. Possible implementations could include temporarily increasing the size of selectable items on the screen, increasing the touch input region, and changing both the display and the input regions based on the motion of the device and motion of the selectable object, such as when swiping through pages of apps. A similar Apple patent filing appeared in April, and dealt primarily with scaling screen elements to make them easier to select when the device is in motion. As with all Apple patents, this filing does not necessarily represent any future product release from Apple, but offers evidence of the company’s research in this area. [via AppleInsider]