Meanwhile, he contends that the Street is missing the opportunity the company has in gesture recognition.
Touch technologies with high transmittance, low power consumption, multi-touch or gesture recognition will benefit the most.
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The gesture recognition has reportedly evolved, though, and we're eager to check that out soon.
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Waechter notes that the company is working with five different potential customers on additional uses for the gesture recognition technology.
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"The future of technology lies in moving from touchscreen to gesture recognition, but to date, using cameras has proved limiting and unnatural to users, " he said.
Using state-of-the-art driver eye-tracking and 3-D hand-gesture recognition, HCD-14 Genesis is able to recognize driver commands free from the distractions associated with manual controls.
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Golden-i is a full PC, runs Microsoft OS. offers unique Hands-Free user interface: advanced speech recognition in 26 languages with 6 axis gesture recognition.
The cars of the future will have powerful panoptic systems to project telematic imagery across the windshield, audiophile sound systems and speech and gesture recognition.
Waechter says the gesture recognition business was less than 4% of revenue in the December quarter, but the market is just getting off the ground.
Through the piece's advanced gesture recognition technology, wielders of this powerful tool can put the power of 39 commands in the palm of their hand.
Once a specific feature is selected via eye-tracking, thumb controls or gesture recognition can be used to select navigation, infotainment, audio, HVAC, and even smartphone connectivity functions.
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To be sure, current gesture recognition technology has its downsides.
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Other companies have also developed gesture recognition software for phones.
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There had been a large body of work looking at different ways to control devices through vision-based gesture recognition, the professor said, but not so much had concentrated on movement.
Skillman also recommended that manufacturers embrace emerging trends like gesture recognition, the convergence of phones, TVs and computers and the move to embed Web browsers in everything from printers to cars.
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Gesture recognition might seem a mismatch with phones since people tend to keep them close at hand, but TI believes there are plenty of reasons people will want to manage their handsets with motions.
MotionTools also has built in gesture recognition that allows users to gently swipe their phone in the air to launch applications, skip through songs in a playlist, activate presentation effects, navigate the web, and much, much more.
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Leap Motion, the company behind the Leap Motion controller, a gesture recognition system for personal computers (starting with Apple OS X and Microsoft Windows), has had a passionate group of developers on board from the start.
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Omek brings its gesture recognition engine.
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They are looking to use gesture-recognition technology in things like interactive advertisements or in medical and health applications.
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Soon gesture-recognition systems, which will read the occupants' hand gestures in the empty air, will supersede touch screens and capacitive switches, avoiding, among other things, greasy fingerprints on the controls.
Samsung Smart TV Camera supports full HD resolution and enables Smart Interaction features such as Gesture Control and Face Recognition when it is attached to Smart TVs without built-in cameras.
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In addition to the standard 3D and Smart TV capabilities powering 3D movies, live TV, streamed content, web browsing and search, social networking, games and apps, the WiFi-enabled XT880 features a detachable camera that supports facial recognition, gesture control and services such as Skype calling.
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Nancy promptly replied that she would appreciate the gesture and they hugged in recognition of the stress and challenges of the week.
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"Richland" is expected to come bundled with new software for consumers such as gesture- and facial-recognition to dramatically expand and enhance consumers' user experiences.
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"Richland" APUs are expected to come bundled with a wealth of elite software experiences which include gesture- and facial-recognition, wireless connectivity directly to TVs and monitors, and prioritization of system resources when streaming video.
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The patent pre-defines a number of gestures, such as ones for facial recognition, a selection gesture and a pointing gesture (to identify a specific section of an onscreen image).
Users can easily browse and navigate through the Smart TV ecosystem using LG's Magic Remote, which allows users to make commands using the control modes of Voice Recognition, Wheel, Magic Gesture and Point.
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Users can easily browse and navigate through the Smart TV ecosystem using LG's four-mode Magic Remote, which acts as an air mouse with point and click, gesture commands, a scroll wheel and voice recognition.
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