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Date: 15th Feb 2011
TI projects OMAP chip's human-machine
interface capabilities
TI mobile phone chips based on OMAP supports features such
as touch gestures, displays 3D video and also projects video
on to a screen. TI calls this "Me-D experience"
TI says its OMAP platform supports intuitive gestures to
the mobile environment, which includes touchless gestures
by using simple low-resolution and low-power camera in mobile
devices. TI's silicon is supported with gesture library,
and connects gesture features to existing and future applications.
The solution will be available in the second quarter of
2011. The gesturing engine leverages unique OMAP 4 processor
hardware resources, including imaging and vision hardware
accelerators and libraries, a programmable DSP and an embedded
programmable CPU.
TI's OMAP has another interesting feature of allowing users
to take notes and draw in the most natural way - using a
pen or stylus. The writing tool is equipped with EPOS patented
ultrasonic transmitter, and the OMAP processor picks the
transmitted signals using three microphones to accurately
determine the pen or stylus location. This allows users
to take notes either on the screen, or off screen - next
to the mobile device, with or without paper or ink.
TI is also providing complete software package for the
OMAP 4 platform for S3D, HD video and image capture, processing
and rendering enabling 3D video viewing without glasses.
TI will also provide automatic 2D-to-S3D conversion capabilities,
based on the TriDef solutions from DDD.
TI also claims its OMAP enables projected screen as a touch
screen with a possibility of virtual keyboard displayed
on a table.
Well all these human machine interface is nice but all
these are no better than the simple voice commands. Not
just TI, even most processor designers should have worked
to make voice recognition possible like the way we human
beings hear and respond. Though there are few mobile phones
with voice interface they go mad if there is small change
in accent of the speaker's voice.
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