Let's get that useless little cam on the front doing something.
Is anyone actually using it for video calls?
(Probably Snoyt knowing my luck.)
How bout using that pixel tracking tech to allow us to scroll around the screen by tilting the phone? Move the phone and the direction and speed of the pixels can be read by the cam. Currently I’ve only seen this tech ‘wasted’ on games.
The little cam probably has enough rez to read the texture on the pad of ones thumb so our thumb moving in front of the cam could be used as a trackball input.
Possibly throw in a bit of gesture recognition so that ‘circling the thumb,’ or ‘rapid back and forth’ movements could be assigned functions?
I'm now wondering about using both cameras. The Main cam on the back, for left right up down, and the forward facing cam used as a thumb trackball?
How bout using facial recognition so that when the user is looking at the screen, a nod is read as the green key, and a shake is the red key?
- A wink could trigger the SMS function?
- The user opens their mouth to send the SMS.
- Tilt the head to move through your mail.
- Passing you hand over your face shuts the app down.
What about using the voice command system?
Problems with noisy environments?
The phone could recognise the thumb over the forward facing cam, as the trigger for incoming voice commands so that the phone only listens when the user wants it to.
The interesting thing with facial recognition, is that we could get a cheap iPhone type experience by triggering the screen to change aspect as the phone is rotated from portrait to landscape.
When you rotate the phone, the front cam would see that the angle of your face (I'm assuming you’re looking at the screen when you rotate the phone) would change relative to the cam, and this would trigger the phone to change the aspect of the screen.
Ahhh, yes I know a the right girl with a the right phone lined up. Still she wants to look good and be properly dressed. Weird I don't care if she's not properly dressed, actually she's quite hot so... Ehhhmm, changing the subject. Let's just say I have to find the opportune moment to call her ;-) And NO I will not post any movies or pictures of her. Not even cam tests!
ReplyDeleteAnyway DaveT, the front cam is not to good with details a takes a awesome amount of power, a nice bluetooth ring that is motionsensitive seems much better, see the design. Unfortunately it is not for sale. That would be like magically waving your hand in some mysterious way and zap, there comes the pizza-express! Still you are not the first to consider using the front camera for phone-control, I did too.
Voice-control actually already works, what's lacking is the noise-cancelling technique in the phone that is included in modern bluetooth headsets. Background noise is easily cancelled. I drive a `93 roadster, around 85 dB of engine noise at a 100 km/h. The noise cancelling of the Nokia BH-900 headset is perfect. You don't hear the engine crying out in the background at all. Really, it sounds like I am in a quiet room. Works like a dream in the car too. I can make calls using the N95's speech-recognition in the car.
Remind me not to write messages late at night while I am dead tired. Not all thoughts seem to occure in the propper order when I am writing.
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