Entitled "Real Time Video Process Control Using Gestures," the patent reveals that future iDevices could feature a gesture-based video editing toolbar that allows users to “manipulate, control, modify, move, actuate, initiate or generally affect graphical elements such as cursors, icons, media files, lists, text, all or portions of images, or the like within the GUI.”
In an identical way to Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox 360, the front-facing camera of the iPad could be used for facial recognition and hand gestures – as Microsoft said in its Kinect marketing campaign, “you become the controller.”
One use of the technology could be for making videos and the application of on-video annotations that allows users to add interactive commentary to their home movies.
"As with the touch-based gestures applied on or near the touch sensitive input device, the hand gestures can be interpreted to provide instructions for real time processing of the video by the video capture device," reads the filing.
The new technology could be incorporated into existing iDevices, thought the patent does note that some older iPhone models may not have the required processing power.
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Source: AppleInsider
