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iPad and iPhone could get Kinect-style 3D gesture control

by Steven Williamson on 28 October 2011, 10:21

Tags: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)

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A new patent filed by Apple suggests that the iDevice maker is looking at new ways for users to interact with their iPads and iPhones.

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.

Does 3D gesture control on iPad and iPhone get you excited? Let us know in the HEXUS.community forums.

Source: AppleInsider


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Because people are now to lazy to touch the device 2 feet in front of them?
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Because people are now to lazy to touch the device 2 feet in front of them?

Agreed. It's a handheld device, not a TV!
Another wishy-washy patent from apple based on something other have already done?

I guess that's another several million in the bank from unbelievable lawsuits then…..
Got two problems with this, first of, as described in the article this sounds very much like the features that are in Kinect apps, and before that, Sony EyeToy on the PS2. Unless Apple are purely going to limit it's use to iVideo (or whatever they're going to call it), and even then I would suspect that MS would be able to point to stuff that they're already doing.

Secondly, hands off gestures on a device that you're supposed to be holding in your hand seems a little redundant to me. Technology for the sake of technology?!

No, to me a better use of this would be if your Apple “magic device” was docked and connected to a TV. Then you could do your best Tom Cruise (Minority Report) impression while doing the video edits etc with the m.d.'s camera replacing the touch screen. But then again, Kinect owners can say “been there, done that, knocked over the vase/tripped over the couch”.

Gets a big "meh!" from me otherwise.
wow another apple patent attempt where significant prior art exists. The facial recognition part sounds an awfull lot like the ICS unlock tech they previewed.

There is kind of a solution to this, limit the total number of patents a corporation including all its spin off's can have (stops apple creating a million sub companies to hold extra patents), that way they have to pick and choose what is an actual useful bit of technology and not patent everything we can think of and get it passed because we're rich enough to bribe