Google’s Project Glass smart glasses ability to use its frame as a trackpad. You’ll be tapping your way to victory just like Marvel Comics’ Cyclops when you get a pair of these babies on, and with no less than a fully patented bit of touch technology. Project Glass is a technology that we’ve seen several times in the wild now and will likely see next up-close at Google I/Oat the end of this month.
The name of this patent is “Wearable heads-up display with integrated finger-tracking input sensor” and it refers to technology patents dating back to 1998 with Sony’s Image Display System. This brand new patent filed by Google was assigned to Liang-Yu Chi, Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Robert Allen Ryskamp, and none other than Sanjay G Mavinkurve.
The description for this bit of the equation reads as follows, in brief:
“…wherein the first finger-operable input device is substantially transparent, and a second finger-operable input device secured to the wearable frame structure via a second of the two projections and configured to provide gross-motor input information to the processor and sense at least one of a position and movement of a finger along a planar direction relative to a surface of the second input device, and to provide corresponding input information to the processor.” – Google Patent
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