Google Receives Patent for Photo by Gesture
The US patent office has found sufficient uniqueness in the way Google proposes for a system to capture and process images to grant a new patent to the company. The patent describes, among other details, how a user placing their hands in, and then withdrawing their hands from, forms a frame around the portion of the world to be captured.
If this new patent recently granted to Google sounds familiar that’s because there’s a lot of similarity to other work. The most widely publicized of these was when in November 2009 Pranav Mistry, then an MIT Media Lab PhD candidate, presented the concept he called “Sixth Sense” in a TED talk.
After the patent was granted last week many observers have been speculating that this method will be used as part of the hands-free display interface in future versions of Google Glass.