03.14
Apple pioneered touchscreen gesture control on a mobile with the iPhone, but according to a newly discovered patent application, it’s looking to take that screen out of the equation, letting you issue orders to your iOS devices with a wave of your hand. Sounds more than a bit like Kinect to us.
Video editors were up in arms at Final Cut Pro X’s drastic UI revamp, so they’re definitely not going to like the plans outlined in “Real Time Video Process Control Using Gestures”, unearthed by AppleInsider this week.
The patent application is primarily about using one touchscreen device to film, while applying processing, editing commands and filters to it on another device, as the video is streamed to it in realtime over Bluetooth.
What’s most interesting though is the suggestion that these gestures needn’t be touchscreen based. “Other embodiments describe hand gestures in either two or three dimensions that can be sensed by the video capture device using IR sensors, optical sensors” reads the application, attributed to Benjamin A Rottler and Michael Ingrassia Jr I.
Could a future iPhone use its front facing camera to detect your movements? Could that rumoured Apple HD TV make use of similar technology to control what you’re watching? We can but dream. Microsoft’s Kinect is fantastic, and we’ve always said its greatest potential is outside of gaming. Here’s hoping Apple adopts natural body language as well as natural language for controlling its next gen tech.
(via AppleInsider)
Posted in: Apple,Gadget
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