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| The Digital Home
Mobile Phones and Devices
Robotics and Medical Devices
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| The Digital Home |
- Replace mouse and keyboard
- Control home appliances using hand gestures
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Creating an intuitive sign language to replace the keyboard or remote control has been an aspiration of many. Tom Cruise in "Minority Report" looked so cool moving files around with his fingers Today, 3DV's technology creates the opportunity to use fine hand and finger gestures to control your PC and for the first time replicate Cruise's experience, except without any wearables.
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But controlling your PC is just part of the whole picture. While today's typical home uses many independent devices with limited interconnectivity, the "Digital Networked Home" is a vision shared by major players in the consumer electronics industry (e.g. Intel, Sony, Microsoft), according to which all home electronic devices (be it TV, PC or washing machine) will be networked digitally so that they can be controlled centrally. This will open possibilities like scheduling systems' operation in advance, controlling them from outside the home, etc. Media Centers embody this vision to some extent, at least with respect to entertainment systems.
A major challenge to the new concept lies in building a user interface simple enough to control the multitude of devices in the home. 3DV's technology opens the door to developing an interface built on simple yet fine hands gestures (e.g. pointing at a device), making the control and operation of the various systems intuitive.
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| Mobile Phones and Devices |
- Background replacement for mobile video-conferencing
- Gesture-based control of mobile devices
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It might be hard to believe, but mobile phones with built-in cameras were introduced as late as 2002. Five years later there are 200 million mobile phones with cameras sold annually, and this combination seems logical and useful. What started as a gimmick is now commonly used to shoot stills and distribute them, and is becoming a major device for shooting videos and distributing them, as imager quality and network bandwidth are increasing.
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The natural next phase in a 3G world should be mobile video-conferencing. And yet, many people might feel that their location and setting when using a mobile phone - in the car, in a hotel room or in the open - would provide the wrong video background settings for such a conversation.
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3DV's revolutionary technology can make a new, creative and private mobile video conferencing a reality. Using the capability to capture depth, the video background can be easily replaced in real-time. Furthermore, the speaker's 3D image can be rotated and positioned at the middle of the screen with the eyes looking straight ahead, even if in reality the speaker is in her car looking at the road.
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3DV's technology can also form the basis for developing a new intuitive user interface for mobile phones. As an example, instead of touching the keypad, one could use fine finger gestures recognized by a 3D camera to dial, create SMSs etc. With very low computational requirements, 3DV's technology is ideal for implementation in mobile devices.
The mobile phone market is highly feature-driven. A next generation 3D-enabled phone with the above capabilities may well be equipped with the kind of feature-set users may be seeking a few years from now.
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| Robotics and Medical Devices |
- 3D vision for robots
- 3D vision for the blind and in-body operations
- Medical diagnostics
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Humans see the real world in three dimensions, or in other words as a set of objects with depth using various 'depth cues' which include shadows, shading, movement, size; and most significantly different and separate images for
the right and left eyes (stereoscopic vision).
While robots need to have a three dimensional vision of the world too to perform many of their tasks, using the same 'depth cues' in robotics is difficult and ineffective.
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Real-time depth capturing using 3DV's technology will make a radical change in the tasks that can be accomplished by intelligent and cost effective robots. Activities such as Material Handling; Assembly & Pick-and-Place; Collision Warning & Obstacle Detection; and Navigation, would be executed much more efficiently and robustly.
Some of the robotics applications could play a role in medical devices (e.g. obstacle detection and navigation for the blind providing a 3D view during an operation inside the body). Additionally, the imaging technology developed by 3DV could be employed in other medical applications, primarily in diagnostics (e.g. ophthalmic diagnostics,
IR mammography).
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