Two-finger touch tech came before iPhone

Some of Apple's allegations, as it wages a patent court battle against Samsung, involve the iPhone's pinch-and-zoom technology. Other patents involve enlarging documents

Apple says this technology was new in 2007 when the iPhone debuted. Yesterday, Samsung showed the jury lots of examples of technology that it says predates Apple's.

Last year, Apple accused Samsung in a lawsuit of ripping off some of the technology behind the iPhone and iPad to launch numerous clone devices.

Samsung entered into evidence the above photos. The caption read: "In our lightbox application, users can not only move photographs around each with both of their hands, but can also use a simple two-point operation to simultaneously pan, zoom, and rotate the object in one natural and intuitive motion. A similar interface is offered in a geospatial browsing application, but along with additional gestures to handle navigation in the 3rd dimension."