Samsung has patented a system to control cellphone and mobile device by gestures. The system looks very much like the gesture control patent by Apple but is actually bit different. Apple’s patent are based on interaction with a touchscreen where as Samsung uses front mounted camera that recognizes gesture in space around the camera and translates them into on-screen commands. The image submitted with the patent show many of the functions that can be performed by using your hand. For example flipping two fingers pointed towards the screen will result in object flip on screen. It will be kind of weird using gesture control in public places, imagine pointing and then twisting and turning you hand in front of your device to get something done. I think multitouch gesture on touchscreen is really cool and it doesn’t look weird also.
[Via PhoneMag]