By: Jon Fingas
Source: www.engadget.com
Category: Patent News
Microsoft has never been shy about its ambitions for Kinect's depth sensing abilities. A pair of patent applications,
however, show that its hopes and dreams are taking a more Hollywood
turn. One patent has the depth camera going portable: a "mobile
environment sensor" determines its trajectory through a room and
generates a depth map as it goes, whether it's using a Kinect-style
infrared sensor or stereoscopic cameras. If the visual mapping isn't
enough, the would-be camera relies on a motion sensor like an
accelerometer
to better judge its position as it's jostled around. Microsoft doesn't
want to suggest what kind of device (if any) might use the patent for
its camera, but it's not ruling out anything from smartphones through to
traditional PCs.
The second patent filing uses the Kinect already in the house for that directorial debut you've always been putting off. Hand gestures control the movie editing, but the depth camera both generates a model of the environment and creates 3D props out of real objects. Motion capture, naturally, lets the humans in the scene pursue their own short-lived acting careers. We haven't seen any immediate signs that Microsoft is planning to use this or the mobile sensor patent filing in the real world, although both are closer to reality than some of the flights of fancy that pass by the USPTO -- the movie editor has all the hallmarks of a potential Dashboard update or Kinect Fun Labs project.
Source:http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/02/microsoft-patent-applications-take-kinect-into-mobile-cameras/
Source: www.engadget.com
Category: Patent News
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The second patent filing uses the Kinect already in the house for that directorial debut you've always been putting off. Hand gestures control the movie editing, but the depth camera both generates a model of the environment and creates 3D props out of real objects. Motion capture, naturally, lets the humans in the scene pursue their own short-lived acting careers. We haven't seen any immediate signs that Microsoft is planning to use this or the mobile sensor patent filing in the real world, although both are closer to reality than some of the flights of fancy that pass by the USPTO -- the movie editor has all the hallmarks of a potential Dashboard update or Kinect Fun Labs project.
Source:http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/02/microsoft-patent-applications-take-kinect-into-mobile-cameras/
