Qualcomm is the technology to smartphones and tablets to be able to control it with gestures build in its current and future Snapdragon processors. Qualcomm buying GestureTek, that the elements for Xbox Kinect.
The support for control via gestures will not only in future processors to be built, but also in current, says Qualcomm in a statement. The installation of the technology in the processors must be the according to the chipbedrijf for its customers easier to create interfaces with gebarenbesturing in their products to build.
GestureTek, the company that Qualcomm takes over, has worked on Xbox Kinect from Microsoft. The technique of the movement of players to register is of the company. Also has Xbox-maker Microsoft for a license on the patents of the American company. GestureTek already exists for 25 years.
Qualcomm has become one of the most important chipleveranciers for smartphonemakers. Recent models of HTC, Samsung and Sony Ericsson are based on Snapdragon socs. Because Microsoft only drivers written for Qualcomm chips, all Windows Phone 7 devices socs of the American chipbakker. Also Nokia would switch to Qualcomm chips for its Windows Phone models.