The end of the dramas with the dissapeared remote control is near – the prototype solution can put the beginning of a new type of interface for laptops and TVs.
At the exhibition for consumer electronics IFA 2008 in Berlin, the Japanese company have been demonstrated some of its recent achievements in development of so-called image detection technology.
One of the impressive examples was a system for recognizing gestures, which allows the user to interact with the interface of TVs only with movement of his hands. The system monitors the user's appearance in the visual field, then "looks" at the hands. Once they are identified, the viewer can simply shrink hand in a fist and move it in the space, like moving a mouse on a virtual surface, and the TV respond with "moving of the cursor” and menus change depending on the position of the hand.
Toshiba introduced similar technology in some of the latest laptops Qosmio, but there it was in a previous version, while the new is much more sophisticated, it work more smoothly and is not influenced by movements of other users (if there are any in the visual field of the system), told Kate Knill during a demonstration, manager of the department of interactive technologies in British laboratories of the company. Accourding to her, once development reaches that stage, it only remains to improve their application in a real environment so that they become effective alternative to standard remote control.
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