The Future Of Samsung Galaxy- Turing Fingers Into Keybood With The Aid Of Galaxy Glass

Samsung plans for the future of Galaxy world of wearables - with its first step in creating Gear range of smartwatches - and presently rumours suggest it’s gearing up to launch a Google Glass rival in the autumn. 

These reports were bolstered this week by a Samsung patent that not only hints at an upcoming wearable device – it details a system in which wearers could turn their hands into the keyboard. 

In the proposed system, people wearing a camera - on a Google Glass-style device dubbed Galaxy Glass - would be able to look down at their hands, which would be mapped using a virtual keyboard, and use their thumbs to select the keys. 

The reports said'

"It relates to 'an input apparatus and method for providing a camera-assisted input operation for use in a portable device.'

‘Recently there is much interest in the wearable computers such as glasses-type terminal and wristwatch terminals,’ continued the patent. 

‘Such wearable computers are even more limited in space for mounting an input means such as button type keypad and touchscreen.'

The system involves a camera for capturing an image, a storage unit that stores the ‘key to hand mapping table’, a display and a control unit.
Numbers could be assigned to a forefinger, for example, while symbols could be assigned to the middle finger. Alternatively, letters could be plotted at various points across the fingers and palm from top to bottom.

HOW WOULD THE SYSTEM WORK?

In the proposed system, people wearing the camera - on a Google Glass-style device dubbed Galaxy Glass - would be able to look down at their hands, which would be mapped using a virtual keyboard. 

For example, numbers could be assigned to a forefinger, while symbols could be assigned to a middle finger. 

Alternatively, letters could be plotted at various points across the fingers and palm from top to bottom. 

Users would then use their thumb to 'press' the various keys on both hands. 

The camera would capture the movement of the thumb, or identify the force pressed onto each finger to establish which key had been pressed and type the message accordingly.