Now in the UK, a new software has been developed by researchers which will allow users to use their camera phones as a PC mouse to move the items on the screen.
This software iwhich s yet in its early stage will enable users to use camera phones to scroll public displays or to get the information on products or even to buy tickets of airlines online.
Patrick Olivier, an associate professor at Newcastle University is working on the technology together with other researchers Nick Pears and Dan Jackson of Newcastle University.
Olivier explained that the consumers with the help of Bluetooth can connect to a PC to move the cell phone or use a stylus on the cell phone’s screen to also scroll through a computer screen.
The main aim of this technology is to interact with large public displays like those when purchasing movie tickets online. Although according to the researchers the technology is limitless.
After communicating a cell phone’s field of view through a live camera feed to a computer via Bluetooth, the PC establishes the coordinates of its monitor which it sends to a camera phone. After the camera phone registers the image on the mobile phone, then the PC recognizes the display image through image processing technology and the computer knows exactly what can be seen from the camera to set the stage to scroll to PC.
The users can move their phone or use a stylus or the touch screen to scroll the PC or to move items.
“The image capture and image processing rate on the cell phone is quite slow and so you can not move the cell phone as quickly as you would like to. This is what we would like to address in our next prototype,” added Pears.
The researchers have already developed the software for the Symbian and Windows Mobile OSes for PDA’s and camera phones. Meanwhile, this technology is under development for multiple issues, as told by Pears.
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