Free fingers typing technology
First Claim
1. A method for producing user commands to execute on an information processing device, wherein said method is based on associating user commands with combinations of fingers and wherein said method comprises:
- producing taps with the fingers on any surface,acquiring optical images of said fingers and said surface,detecting said fingers taps on said surface using image processing techniques,identifying a combination of fingers by detecting a tap produced on a surface by said fingers all together at an instant t, andexecuting, on the information processing device, the user commands associated to said combination of fingers wherein said user commands are not associated with locations of said surface.
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Abstract
The present invention provides the Free Fingers Typing Technology by fingers tapping on a surface, a technology that allows the user to type, point/select (on the display of a computer or computer-based-device) or play music with bare fingers without keyboard, without display pointing/selecting device and even without computer. The invention provides at least: one methodology to execute the finger movements, one convention to code the finger movements, two techniques to recognize the finger movements, a family of apparatus to optically monitor and recognize finger movements as well as the specifications of a plurality of related computer programs all used with the objective of interpreting finger-surface taps and converting them into computer characters, keyboard key strokes, functions of display-pointing/selecting device, music notes etc. . . . The invention provides means for free fingers typing, pointing/selecting and music playing suitable for all devices requiring a keyboard such as computers, personal digital assistants, cellular phones, gaming devices, musical instruments or other keyboard or display pointing/selecting based devices.
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1. A method for producing user commands to execute on an information processing device, wherein said method is based on associating user commands with combinations of fingers and wherein said method comprises:
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producing taps with the fingers on any surface, acquiring optical images of said fingers and said surface, detecting said fingers taps on said surface using image processing techniques, identifying a combination of fingers by detecting a tap produced on a surface by said fingers all together at an instant t, and executing, on the information processing device, the user commands associated to said combination of fingers wherein said user commands are not associated with locations of said surface. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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