Do you remember these super futuristic conventions of keyboards projected on a table so he could write without touching a cell phone? Samsung wants to make it happen, but using Artificial Intelligence to detect any movement of our fingers.
Technology is emerging at the CES 2020 stage SelfieType, which is a concept right now, but it brings out the vision we can see in our pocket in the future.
It is clear that a smartphone is a tool we use every day, and we spend many hours typing in it, whether in short text messaging applications or on social media, notes, tasks or long texts. As we get used to it, we already write fast and predictable keyboards that are very helpful, but sometimes we don't need extra comfort. SelfieType is a project born into Samsung C-Lab, a laboratory of ideas from the mainstream and many of them are on display at CES 2020.
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SelfieType, an invisible keyboard anywhere
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In short, Samsung suggests situations where we need to write long text but we don't want to edit a physical keyboard, no matter how good or smart it is. With SelfieType it was not enough to put a cell phone in front of us on a flat surface, like a table, and to put our hands in front of us in writing.
By default yours Artificial Intelligence He will analyze the position of our fingers and “think about the invisible keyboard, because we really can't see it. That is, there is no speculation, but we have to write the table assuming there are keys there. AI will be responsible for knowing which key "presses" each finger and our movement and the text will appear on the screen.
You do not need many sensors, the front camera
It seems easier than it really is, not only because of the complexity of the finger movements and the predictability that AI should have, but also the user itself, because he'll be writing blindly, without getting answers from no genre and no clues to the space where his fingers are moving.
According to Samsung, this technology only uses the front camera of the mobile, so no additional hardware or other sensors are needed. At the moment we will not see it on any commercial smartphone, they only test it in English and in the future they will be introduced for tests in other languages. In addition, since it is designed for AI, when the time comes it will easily work on other devices such as tablets or computers. What do you think of the idea?
