Google thinking along the lines of equipping it wearable The device with skin interface, according to a patent application by the company that was spotted by LetsGoDigital. According to the patent, which was filed with the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) in 2020, the tech giant was interested in developing a ‘skin’. interface For wearable’. The patent received WIPO approval this month.
According to the patent, Google wearable devices such as . considering giving earbudsSmart glasses and smartwatches can be controlled through a ‘skin interface’, which involves using gesture controls through the user’s skin.
How it is described to work requires the user to make a swipe or tap gesture on the part of their skin where they are wearing the device. The gesture would start a mechanical wave which would then be detected by the sensor and accelerometer in the device and then the corresponding action would be performed. This would be made possible by using sensor Fusion technology, which uses multiple sensors to accurately detect the waveform.
Some gestures can issue various commands such as vertical or horizontal swipe, short and long tap, tapping with more than one finger to take or end a phone call, control volume, play or pause audio, etc. Gesture technology will eliminate the need to touch your device and can work to the advantage of the user in case of earbuds as the device will not bother to fit in the ear if relying only on gestures.