Samsung AR keyboard patent for Galaxy Glass was recently revealed. It aims to turn your hands into a keyboard for use with the rumored Samsung Galaxy Glass.
A patent owned by Samsung was recently revealed, which the company had filed last year with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WPO). The patent titled “Input Method and Apparatus of Portable Device” shows how the rumoured Galaxy Glass would work.
The patent shows that a user could type using his or her thumbs with a Galaxy Glass by tracking virtual alphabets mapped over different sections of a user’s fingers. Rumors of Samsung coming up with a smart wearable device to rival Google Glass, have been flowing around for a while. So far there is no word from Samsung of whether the company will actually make use of this technology.
With such a technology, users will be able to type with just the fingers without any need of keys. The revealed patent hints at the growing interest in the “glasses-type” wearable devices and shows that Samsung is currently focused on putting in such features into its Galaxy Glass. Such features are currently missing in Google Glass.
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The patent also shows how the keyboard overlay would look like on hands. The keys are laid out on your fingers while your thumb does the typing. Three sections of your fingers would represent different input characters but the layout can be customized further.
While Google Glass is more focussed on voice recognition, it leaves some issues unaddressed such as using it in noisy environments. The patent filing by Samsung also points that the current computerized glasses and smartwatches have limited space for a traditional means of input (standard keyboard or a touchscreen). The South Korean electronics giant does note that voice recognition is a good alternative to such methods but says that there are limitations. Samsung says, “speech recognition-based input device performs poorly in noisy environments.”
Source: WIPO, Via: TechnoBuffalo