![]() She notes that multi-touch interfaces have been around in research labs for decades. Using different technology, Microsoft also plans to launch a larger camera-based interactive table, called Surface, before the end of the year.Ĭhia Shen works on interactive displays at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, and chaired the 20th Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology held in Rhode Island, US, in October 2007, where ThinSight was revealed. The Microsoft researchers are currently developing a 19-inch ThinSight panel and say it should be straightforward to someday integrate the feature into current manufacturing processes. This could let a user operate the screen remotely or send images for it to display. ![]() Data could be sent to and from the screen using a PDA or cellphone too, Izadi says. ThinSight can also work as a wireless infrared transmitter and receiver, responding to an ordinary TV remote or other infrared-enabled gadgets. Apple’s iPhone, can detect multiple touches through changes in electric fields, but cannot take images of an object. Other multi-touch and imaging interfaces have been developed previously, but these often use cameras placed behind the display screen or behind the user, which is cumbersome. “Why not let them detect, as well as display, information?” “In a decade there will be a lot more screens in every environment,” he adds. ![]() “This is early days for this approach – most prototypes are still small and slow,” says team member Steve Hodges. And Sharp has unveiled a small LCD display that can scan business cards, or detect the touch of a single finger. Apple has already filed a patent on a display that works as a webcam, using cameras in between its pixels. ![]()
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