Samsung, the Southcorean company leader in consumer electronics, has been working on gesture controls since the Samsung Galaxy S4 in a very special way. The company calls this technology ‘Air Gestures’, because its devices have sensors capable of interpreting gestures “on the air” without touching any of the device’s surfaces. Now, according to a patent filed on the US, Samsung is working on a laptop with this technology.
In the Brand and Patents office in the US, Samsung has filed for a patent for a new laptop. It seems to be its next ‘flagship’ in their laptop series, with a trackpad sensitive to pressure and with the necessary sensors to recognize this gesture control without direct contact with the device. As shown in the patent filing, the trackpad would be in charge of interpreting the user’s gestures and above it is where the user should perform this gestures. For the time being, we don’t know which kind of gestures and for what purpose is the company setting them.
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