“Since Apple has scored the touch crown, Samsung is going hands-free. It’s filed for a patent to let your fingers do the talking — simply wave them in some predetermined way to, for example, pull up a phone number, navigate the web or play music,” Stacey Higginbotham reports for GigaOM.
“The patent is focused on how the phone’s camera is used to translate the hand signals and then deliver those instructions to the device for execution,” Higginbotham reports
Basically, the phone’s integrated camera is supposed to recognize hand gestures as commands and execute them.
Full article here.
Cockamamie idea. Although we do have one gesture we’d like to try out.
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