Devices Controlled Just By Hand Gestures: Canesta’s 3-D Vision Technology
Canesta company, in collaboration with Hitachi and GestureTek has made a demonstration of a new low-cost, 3-D vision technology, which will change the way of interaction televisions, media centers, and computers. In a demonstration of the Canesta 3-D vision technology, there is shown how the user is able to access the main functions of a prototype gesture-controlled television system, without the need for touchscreen, remote, wireless controller, or other physical device. Therefore, the user become the natural interface, because the key features, as well as the of the onscreen menus can be accessed just by natural hand gestures.
The television system used in the demonstration is equipped with a single CMOS sensor chip, which outputs a continuous stream of 3-D “frames”. According to a recent press release, they will define the distance to resolvable features in view of the sensor, easy to be interpreted by a software as gestures, obstacles, faces or individuals:
“The capability comes from giving devices such as the Hitachi TV the ability to “see” in three dimensions and in real time. For this purpose, Canesta has developed a low-cost, 3-D “camera” chip that lends itself to being integrated into media centers, televisions, PCs – or just about any other device – as easily as conventional video camera chips are today.
And one important application is providing input to everyday devices – our PCs, TVs, media centers, or even “smart” home nodes – from a distance, without the need for touching anything.”
Kara Swisher has published a blog post containing the video of the demonstration of the Canesta 3-D vision technology, used to control the functions of the prototype gesture-controlled television system. The demonstration was presented at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference:
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