Fujitsu is experimenting with eye tracking on tablets

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Fujitsu has a tablet shown to the public in which several Android applications using eye movements to to send. Also, the manufacturer is working on a version for desktop pcs. Concrete products are not there yet.

Fujitsu works in the development of eye-trackingtechnologie together with the Japanese provider NTT Docomo. In an article at The Verge describes the Fujitsu at the Ceatec trade show in an experimental tablet is shown in which an infrared led and a camera are processed. These are used to triangulate the distance to the eye to be measured, while the camera and the pupil follows.

After calibration of the eye-tracking system, which takes approximately 30 seconds and would last, would be the control by means of a cursor is fairly accurate to the touch. To the oogaansturing to be able to test could include a browser, a simple game, an image gallery and an e-readerapplicatie be tried. If the user is longer somewhere to look, this item is selected. According to the editor of The Verge was the biggest challenge to the eyes to keep focus. Would continue to control the particular pleasant function in the execution of simple tasks in the gallery application.

Fujitsu would also experiment with the eye-tracking system on a desktop pc. It was on Google Maps everywhere. In both cases, it is unclear whether the company’s control are going to include it in future products, according to Fujitsu, the current applications are still demos. In addition, the audience is not yet entirely clear. There is, among others, thought to be persons who, in the bed of a tablet want to serve or who is in a crowded train his tablet with both hands firmly to hold. It is also eye-trackingtechnologie been used, especially by people with disabilities, but this is mostly to loose peripherals.