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user interface for Touchless control of

electrically operated equipment. Unlike
other systems which depend on distance to
the sensor or sensor selection this system
depends on hand and or finger motions, a
hand wave in a certain direction, or a flick of
ABSTRACT: the hand in one area, or holding the hand in
one area or pointing with one finger for
It was the touch screens which initially example. The device is based on optical
created great furore.Gone are the days when pattern recognition using a solid state optical
you have to fiddle with the touch screens
and end scratching up. Touch screen
displays are ubiquitous worldwide.Frequent
touching a touchscreen display with a
matrix sensor with a lens to detect hand
pointing device such as a finger can result in
motions. This sensor is then connected to a
the gradual de-sensitization of the
digital image processor, which interprets the
touchscreen to input and can ultimately lead
patterns of motion and outputs the results as
to failure of the touchscreen. To avoid this a
signals to control fixtures, appliances,
simple user interface for Touchless control
machinery, or any device controllable
of electrically operated equipment is being
through electrical signals.
developed. EllipticLabs innovative
technology lets you control your gadgets
like Computers, MP3 players or mobile
phones without touching them. A simple
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INTRODUCTION:
The touch less touch screen sounds like it break out in a sweat. Now this technology
would be nice and easy, however after closer doesn’t compare to the hologram-like IO2
examination it looks like it could be quite a Technologies Heliodisplay M3, but thats for
workout. This unique screen is made by anyone that has $18,100 laying around.
TouchKo , White Electronics Designs , and
You probably wont see this screen in stores
Groupe 3D. The screen resembles the
any time soon. Everybody loves a touch
Nintendo Wii without the Wii Controller.
screen and when you get a gadget with touch
With the touchless touch screen your hand
screen the experience is really exhilarating.
doesn’t have to come in contact with the
When the I-phone was introduced,everyone
screen at all, it works by detecting your hand
felt the same.But gradually,the exhilaration
movements in front of it. This is a pretty
started fading. While using the phone with
unique and interesting invention, until you
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the finger tip or with the stylus the screen

started getting lots of finger prints and
gadgets like Computers, MP3 players or
scratches. When we use a screen protector;
mobile phones without touching them.
still dirty marks over such beautiful glossy
Simply point your finger in the air towards
screen is a strict no-no. Same thing happens
the device and move it accordingly to
with I-pod touch. . Most of the time we have
control the navigation in the device. They
to wipe the screen to get a better unobtrusive
term this as “Touchless human/machine
view of the screen
user interface for 3D navigation ”.
TOUCH LESS MONITOR:
Sure, everybody is doing touchscreen

interfaces these days, but this is the first
time I’ve seen a monitor that can respond to
gestures without actually having to touch the
Thanks to EllipticLabs innovative

technology that lets you control your
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screen. surgical gloves, the display features

capacitive sensors that can read movements
from up to 15cm away from the screen.
Software can then translate gestures into
screen commands.
Touchscreen interfaces are great, but all that

touching, like foreplay, can be a little bit of
a drag. Enter the wonder kids from Elliptic
Labs, who are hard at work on implementing
a touchless interface. The input method is,
well, in thin air. The technology detects
motion in 3D and requires no special worn-
sensors for operation. By simply pointing at
the screen,users can manipulate the object
being displayed in 3D. Details are light on
how this actually functions, but what we do
know is this:
What is the technology behind it?
It obviously requires a sensor but the sensor

is neither hand mounted nor present on the
screen. The sensor can be placed either
onthe table or near the screen. And the
hardware setup is so compact that it can be
The monitor, based on technology from
fitted into a tiny device like a MP3 player or
TouchKo was recently demonstrated by
White Electronic Designs and Tactyl
Services at the CeBIT show. Designed for
a mobile phone. It recognizes the position of
applications where touch may be difficult,
an object from as 5 feet.
such as for doctors who might be wearing
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WORKING: cell phones and the like. IPod touchless,

anyone?
The system is capable of detecting
movements in 3-dimensions without ever Touch-less Gives Glimpse of GBUI:
having to put your fingers on the screen. We have seen the futuristic user interfaces
Their patented touchless interface doesn’t of movies like Minority Report and the
require that you wear any special sensors on Matrix Revolutions where people wave
your hand either. You just point at the their hands in 3 dimensions and the
screen (from as far as 5 feet away), and you computer understands what the user wants
can manipulate objects in 3D. and shifts and sorts data with precision.
Microsoft's XD Huang demonstrated how
his company sees the future of the GUI at
ITEXPO this past September in fact. But at
the show, the example was in 2 dimensions,
not
3.The GBUI as seen in the Matrix
Sensors are mounted around the screen that

is being used, by interacting in the line-of-
sight of these sensors the motion is detected
and interpreted into on-screen movements.
What is to stop unintentional gestures being
used as input is not entirely clear, but it
looks promising nonetheless. The best part?
Elliptic Labs says their technology will be
easily small enough to be implemented into
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The GBUI as seen in Minority Report finger movements in 3-D space. The user
could use her fingers similarly to a touch
phone, but actually without having to

touch the screen.
Microsoft's vision on the UI in their

Redmond headquarters and it involves lots
of gestures which allow you to take
applications and forward them on to others
with simple hand movements. The demos
included the concept of software
understanding business processes and
That's cool, isn't it? I think the idea is not
helping you work. So after reading a
only great, because user input will not be
document - you could just push it off the
limited to 2-D anymore, but that I can use
side of your screen and the system would
my thick, dirty, bandaged, etc. fingers as
know to post it on an intranet and also send
well (as opposed to "plain" touch UI). I'm a
a link to a specific group of people.
bit skeptic, though, how accurate it can be,
Touch-less UI: whether the software will have AI or the

user will have to learn how to move her
The basic idea described in the patent is that fingers. We'll see hopefully very soon!
there would be sensors arrayed around the
perimeter of the device capable of sensing Finally, there is one more
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thing to mention, it's the built-in The Touchless SDK is an open source SDK
accelerometer. for .NET applications. It enables developers
to create multi-touch based applications
using a webcam for input. Color based
markers defined by the user are tracked and

their information is published through
events to clients of the SDK. In a nutshell,

the Touchless SDK enables touch without
touching. Well, Microsoft Office Labs has
just released “Touchless,” a webcam-driven
multi-touch interface SDK that enables
“touch without touching.”
Touch-less SDK:
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Using the SDK lets developers offer users “a

new and cheap way of experiencing multi-
touch capabilities, without the need of
expensive hardware or software. All the user
needs is a camera,” to track the multi-
colored objects as defined by the developer.
Just about any webcam will work
Touch-less demo:
The Touch less Demo is an open source

application that anyone with a webcam can
use to experience multi-touch, no geekiness
required. The demo was created using the
Mike demonstrated Touch less at a
Touch less SDK and Windows Forms with
recent Office Labs’ Productivity Science
C#. There are 4 fun demos: Snake - where
Fair where it was voted by attendees as
you control a snake with a marker, Defender
“most interesting project.” If you wind up
- up to 4 player version of a pong-like
using the SDK, one would love to hear what
game, Map - where you can rotate, zoom,
use you make of it!
and move a map using 2 markers, and Draw
the marker is used to guess what…. draw! WindowShop pic:
In addition, it is worth pointing out that you

may need a few cameras in stereo to
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maximize accuracy and you could

theoretically use your hands as a mouse -
meaning you can likely take advantage of all
the functions of the GBUI while resting your
hand on the desk in front of you for most of
the day.
At some point we will see this

stuff hit the OS and when that happens, the
consumer can decide if the mouse and
keyboard will rule the future or the GBUI
will be the killer tech of the next decade.
Touch wall:
Touch Wall refers to the touch screen

Touch Wall consists of three infrared lasers
hardware setup itself; the corresponding
that scan a surface. A camera notes when
software to run Touch Wall, which is built
something breaks through the laser line and
on a standard version of Vista, is called
feeds that information back to the Plex
Plex. Touch Wall and Plex are superficially
software. Early prototypes, say Pratley and
similar to Microsoft Surface, a multi-touch
Sands, were made, simply, on a cardboard
table computer that was introduced in 2007
screen. A projector was used to show the
and which recently became commercially
Plex interface on the cardboard, and a the
available in select AT&T stores. It is a
system worked fine. Touch Wall certainly
fundamentally simpler mechanical system,
isn’t the first multi-touch product we’ve
and is also significantly cheaper to produce.
seen (see iPhone). In addition to Surface, of
While Surface retails at around $10,000, the
course, there are a number of early
hardware to “turn almost anything into a
prototypes emerging in this space. But
multi-touch interface” for Touch Wall is just
what Microsoft has done with a few hundred
“hundreds of dollars”.
dollars worth of readily available hardware
is stunning.
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It’s also clear that the only real limit on the Any such system is unlikely to
screen size is the projector, meaning that replace typing and mousing. But that's not
entire walls can easily be turned into a multi the point. Airstrike aims to give you an
touch user interface. Scrap those white occasional quick break from those activities.
boards in the office, and make every flat
CONCLUSION:
surface into a touch display instead. You
might even save some money.
Today’s thoughts are again around user
interface. Efforts are being put to better the
What’s next??
technology day-in and day-out. The
Many personal computers will likely have Touchless touch screen user interface can be
similar screens in the near future. But touch used effectively in computers, cell phones,
interfaces are nothing new -- witness ATM webcams and laptops. May be few years
machines. down the line, our body can be transformed
into a virtual mouse, virtual keyboard and
How about getting completely out of touch?
what not??, Our body may be turned in to an
A startup called LM3Labs says it's working
input device!
with major computer makers in Japan,
Taiwan and the US to incorporate touch less BIBLIOGRAPHY:
navigation into their laptops, Called
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Touch TOUCH-LESS TOUCH SCREEN USER INTERFACE

TOUCH-LESS TOUCHSCREEN USER INTERFACE-

user interface for Touchless control of

the finger tip or with the stylus the screen

TOUCH LESS MONITOR:

Sure, everybody is doing touchscreen

Thanks to EllipticLabs innovative

screen. surgical gloves, the display features

Touchscreen interfaces are great, but all that

What is the technology behind it?

It obviously requires a sensor but the sensor

WORKING: cell phones and the like. IPod touchless,

3.The GBUI as seen in the Matrix

Sensors are mounted around the screen that

phone, but actually without having to

Microsoft's vision on the UI in their

Touch-less UI: whether the software will have AI or the

markers defined by the user are tracked and

events to clients of the SDK. In a nutshell,

Using the SDK lets developers offer users “a

The Touch less Demo is an open source

In addition, it is worth pointing out that you

maximize accuracy and you could

At some point we will see this

Touch Wall refers to the touch screen

You can drag windows around or

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