“Our
approach requires no direct instrumentation of the hand or body, and is
non-optical, allowing for a compact form-factor that is resilient to ambient
illumination”
Microsoft Research Team
commenting on the developement of a Touchless TouchScreen Technology for
smartphones
Microsoft
hasn’t been having a great week.
What
with their Browser being the subject of a Zero-Day Bug in the Internet Explorer
Browser that they finally fixed on at 10am on Thursday May 1st 2014
as stated in my blog
article entitled “Microsoft
issues Bug Fix Windows OS including Windows XP - Corporate irresponsibility
averted as CERT and DHS Slap on the wrist made a difference” which made
them have to issue a fix for Windows XP Browser as well.
So
what better way to fix the problem than to announce some innovative ideas that
they have cooking to show the public that they are still on top of their Game!
Microsoft’s Air Gesture
Keyboard - Computer Human Interaction
Conference was a Good Look
First,
they developed a prototype Keyboard that can also execute commands from Air
Gestures as stated in “THIS
PROTOTYPE MICROSOFT KEYBOARD ALSO READS HAND GESTURES”, published May 1,
2014 By Konrad Krawczyk, DigitalTrends.
The
keyboard, developed by Microsoft Research Team and bearing no official name,
made its debut at the Computer Human Interaction Conference this week in
Toronto, Canada. It’s basically a cross between the Leap Motion Controller and
a Keyboard as described in my blog article entitled
“Leap
Motion Controller went live on Monday July 22 2013 - How a Theremin Computer
Device revives PC sales as Everything is Possible to be controlled by Voice and
Motion”.
Microsoft
Research Team intent is for it to enhance the Windows 8 experience. No word
from the Redmond, Virginia Company as to when this will be an official product,
but it’s sure to make more persons buy more Windows 8 Desktop computers, as
it’s basically a Microsoft Kinect Controller and a physical keyboard in one.
Microsoft’s Touchless
Touch Screen Technology – By 2015, smartphones will be obsolete
The
next innovation from the Big Bad Windows maker that also made its debut at the
Computer Human Interaction Conference was the same exact thing. But instead of
being for Desktop computers, it’s geared towards smartphones!
Microsoft’s
Research Team, using custom off-the-shelf parts, made a Touchless Touch Screen
Technology for smartphones, again bearing no name as stated in “THIS
MICROSOFT SENSOR COULD MAKE TOUCHING YOUR PHONE SCREEN A THING OF THE PAST”,
published May 2, 2014 By Christian Brazil Bautista, DigitalTrends.
The
Microsoft Research Team published their research online in an article entitled
“A
Low-Cost Transparent Electric Field Sensor for 3D Interaction on Mobile Devices”.
Microsoft’s
Touchless Touch screen Technology is basically a Processor and a customized
array made up of:
1.
One (1) Transmit Electrode that
generates an Electric Field
2.
Five (5) Receiver Electrodes that detect
changed in capacitance when your body's Electrical Field
When
your body’s Electrical Field, most likely via your finger, comes in contact
with that generated Electrical Field, it causes a change in the Electrical Field
that is detected by the five (5) received Electrodes.
A
Feedback Loop program learns and records your air gestures each time your
body's Electrical Field interacts with the Electrical Field generated by the Touchless
Touch Screen Technology. This is read and used to generate a 3D map of your
finger movements and translating that to actual commands executed on the
smartphone.
Persons
who dislike smudging their pretty Touch Screen smartphones or Desktop computers
will like these innovations a lot. Too bad that by 2015, the smartphone will be
obsolete, that is, as soon as Google Glass drops the price significantly to
about say US$199 on a 3G/4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) Contract as I’ve
predicted in my blog
article entitled “Google
Glass launched early as a Product - Google pre-empting Samsung Galaxy Glass and
Facebook's Oculus Rift replacing the smartphone in 2015 the Year of the Sheep”.
Still, if this combines with the Leap Motion
Controller and Voice Commands on Desktop and Laptop computers as prophesied in
my Geezam blog article entitled “Siri and
Kinect: Heralds of a coming world free of Remote Controls”, then the
Desktop may eventually saved by virtue of people wanting to talk to their
computers like Iron Man does to JARVIS sans
the Remote Control!
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