Wave your hand to camera—and get info you need!
Separately, the technology may offer a new and sexy way of announcing arrivals and departures at train stations
Sep 10, 2015
Scientists at the Altay State University (AltSU) in Siberia have come up with an interactive IT-enabled information board to replace age-old wooden or plastic boards to pin paper on. The new board will be controlled by gestures, the Russian news agency TASS reported, citing Vasiliy Belozerskikh of AltSU’s Radiotekhnika student’s design bureau.
"The system offers a very simple and intuitive interface, for which a unique computer algorithm has been developed to recognize sign language, such as hand movements up or down, left or right," he explained.
A wide screen TV set is used as terminal to do search. A microcomputer with a camera is hooked up to it. The camera is positioned to ‘watch’ a person and ‘read out’ his or her gestures. The computer processes the video stream thus obtained and sends out commands to the terminal—this is how the system works, Mr. Belozerskikh said.
He believes the solution will make it possible to retire millions of information paper boards across the country. Separately, the technology may offer a new and sexy way of announcing arrivals and departures at train stations.
According to the developers, one of the Altay region’s largest retail chains is interested. "We’re currently in talks with them over terms of a contract," Mr. Belozerskikh said, adding that the solution may see the light of day later this year already.
"The system offers a very simple and intuitive interface, for which a unique computer algorithm has been developed to recognize sign language, such as hand movements up or down, left or right," he explained.
A wide screen TV set is used as terminal to do search. A microcomputer with a camera is hooked up to it. The camera is positioned to ‘watch’ a person and ‘read out’ his or her gestures. The computer processes the video stream thus obtained and sends out commands to the terminal—this is how the system works, Mr. Belozerskikh said.
He believes the solution will make it possible to retire millions of information paper boards across the country. Separately, the technology may offer a new and sexy way of announcing arrivals and departures at train stations.
According to the developers, one of the Altay region’s largest retail chains is interested. "We’re currently in talks with them over terms of a contract," Mr. Belozerskikh said, adding that the solution may see the light of day later this year already.