Mark Zuckerberg calls, Tim Cook answers. Of course, to think that Apple will come out with a Thanos-style glove tomorrow that can shatter the world of the Metaverse, we pass. But in the meantime important news comes in this sense.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has officially granted a grant apple A certificate of exclusivity regarding systems and procedures for identification Skin-to-skin contact and, more specifically, to detect contact between two hands or between two fingers for input in a virtual or augmented reality environment.
According to primitive concepts apple, i i l VR viewer A cursor or pointer, allowing movement of an object such as scrolling or panning, adjusting control settings, opening a file or document, was developed for use with skin-to-skin contact. It still is. A virtual glove for displaying a menu.
Apple’s move towards the alluring parallel world
Many types of input devices are currently available for performing operations on a computer system, such as buttons or keys, mice, trackball, Joystick, touch sensor panel, touch screen and the like. In this case the input can be used as communication between two different parts of the user’s body. For example, cameras on head-mounted displays can be used to detect a finger in contact with the contralateral hand or to track the movement of the finger along the surface of the contralateral hand.
However, system based the camera And/or RF-based systems may have difficulty detecting the difference between touching a finger without touching (moving up) the opposite hand.
its approach apple slightly different. Apple’s invention covers devices and methods for detecting contact between a first part of the body and a second part. The sensing circuit may be configured to sense a signal at the sensing electrode in response to a driving signal applied to the driving electrode.
In addition, the processing circuitry may be configured to detect communications based on a determination that one or more criteria are met. Using a robust criterion, including assessment of waveform quality (eg, whether it is distorted or not), can improve the disambiguation between a skin-to-skin contact event and a proximity event.
It also applies to devices and methods for detecting movement gestures, using contact between two fingers of the same hand. In short, a nice step towards that parallel world everyone wants to live in. For now, Apple is a patent: if they are roses, they will grow.
