Nokia has applied for a patent for smart glasses, like Google Glass. There have been going longer rumors that Nokia after the sale of his telefoontak at Microsoft wants to address the market for wearables; this patent seems to be the first evidence.
Nokia asked the recently published patent in the summer of 2012, and therefore seems to be well underway with the concept. The big difference with Google Glass is the way of control; Glass works through voice command and control, with a tap on the glasses and possibly with movements such as nodding. The concept of Nokia see the goggles using a view-facing camera, where the user is looking, while the input via gestures in the air is.
What features the glasses can perform, is not from the patent. Nokia speaks in the request over a near-to-eye display to display data. Previously went the rumor that Nokia is working on a smart glasses, which would come out of a r&d department that is not by Microsoft to be acquired. The Redmondse software giant takes the telefoontak of the Finnish manufacturer. That deal would be within a few weeks.
According to the details of that deal may be for Nokia in the coming years, not phones, but the release of ‘wearables’, portable electronics, may be. Nokia would also have worked on smartwatch, but it may be under Microsoft.
