Sixth Sense Technology

CONTENTS

• INTRODUCTION

• REQUIREMENTS

• WORKING

• APPLICATIONS

• ADVANTAGES & LIMITATIONS

• CONCLUSION

SIXTHSENSE TECHNOLOGY

• 'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

INTRODUCTION

•This technology was developed by Pranav Mistry.

•Sixth sense is a wearable gestural interface device.

•It is named sixth sense as it recognizes objects around us and give information about them.

Sixth Sense technology is the science of tomorrow with the aim of connecting the digital world with the physical world seamlessly,

eliminating hardware devices

The 5 senses Here comes the sixth sense

About Pranav Mistry

• Born in 14 May 1981 at Palanpur, Gujarat, India

• Now is the head of Think Tank Team(TTT) and Vice president of Research at Samsung

• He is best known for his work on SixthSense and Samsung Galaxy Gear.

REQUIREMENTS

• Mirror

• Wearable Camera

• Pocket Projector

• Internet enabled Smart phone

• Colored markers

Wearable camera•It captures an object in view and tracks the user’s hand gestures.

•It acts like a digital eye, connecting you to the world of digital information.

Pocket projector•It Projects visual information & enables surfaces, walls and physical objects to be used as interfaces.•It displays data sent from smart phone on any surface in view.

Smart phone• As the smart phone is open sourced.

• The software searches the web and interprets the hand gestures.

Color markers• They help the camera to recognize the hand gestures.• The movements and arrangements of these markers are interpreted and they act as instructions for the projected application interfaces.

Working

ImagesGestures

Vision

Capture

To process the video sequence

Send info

Project image Info on surface

Vision based gesture recognition

• Involves hand shape, position, and movement.

• Software's used in processing are Java,.net,SYMBIAN.

• It is done through following steps:

• Image capturing

• Finger tip detection

• Feature extraction

• tracking

Fingertip detection

Threshold image Detecting finger tips

Feature extraction

1)Circles and ellipses extracted from an image of a hand.

2) Selected image features corresponding to the palm, the fingers and the finger tips of a hand.

3) The selected image features capture the essential structure of a hand.

Tracking hand

rotationsSize variations State change

Interaction based direct manipulation and symbolic gestures

Tracking result

Gesture mode

selector

Operating mode selector

Application controller for direct

manipulation

Application controller for

symbolic gesture

Symbolic gesture recognizer

Application

Operating mode

No of fingers

location

Size & location of the gesture

trajectory

Kind of gesture

APPLICATIONS

Call making

• You can use the Sixth Sense to project a keypad onto your hand, then use that virtual keypad to make a call.

Maps

• With the map application we can call up the map of our choice and then use thumbs and index fingers to navigate the map

Check the time

• Draw a circle on your wrist to get a virtual watch that gives you the correct time

Enhanced news reading

• Sixth Sense can be programmed to project related videos onto newspaper articles you are reading

Drawing application

• The drawing application lets the user draw on any surface by tracking the fingertip movements of the user’s index finger

Zooming features

• The user can zoom in or zoom out using hand movements

Get product information

• Sixth Sense uses image recognition or marker technology to recognize products we pick up, then feeds us information on those products

Get book information

• The system can project Amazon ratings on that book, as well as reviews and other relevant information

Take pictures

If you fashion your index fingers and thumbs into a square ("framing" gesture), the system will snap a photo.

After taking the desired number of photos, we can project them onto a surface, and use gestures to sort through the photos, and organize and resize them.

Weather Report

Awards

 TR35 2009 Young Inventor Under 35 Award  by  Technology Review

SixthSense wins 2009 INVENTION AWARD  by  Popular Science

Advantages• Portable.

• Multi touch and multi user interaction.

• Time conserving.

• connects the real world and digital world.

• Mind map the idea anywhere.

• Data access from machine directly in real time.

LimitationsImage noise.High cost of individual components.

Future developments

• Gaming with out controllers.

• Invisible mouse.

• 3d interfaces.

Conclusion

• Using this technology:

“Finally one gets a taste of the world of Harry Potter.”

• Pranav had announced in Nov 2009 that the source code will be released with an open source licence.

References

• www.Pranavmistry.com

• www.Freshcreation.com/entry/sixth_sense_technology

• www.6thsensetechnologies.com

• Boingboing.net/2009/11/12/sixth-sense-technolo.html

• ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

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