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Augmented hot shit.

mro — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:24:49 +0000

Seems to be ready for the masses:

seen at: http://www.camspace.com/

Markerloses Mocap

mro — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:53:02 +0000

Heise schreibt heute wieder mal was zum Thema: Apple will Bewegungserkennung als Nutzerschnittstelle patentieren lassen.

Wer sich für die Patentschrift interessiert, kann sich mit diesem bash-Script (benutzt wget und Imagemagick) ein PDF bauen:

#!/bin/sh
# Download the us patent application us20090153474
# and convert the single tiff images to a more handy pdf.
#
pat="us20090153474"
base="http://aiw2.uspto.gov"
file="/.DImg?Docid=${pat}ki&IDKey=47B13F807488&ImgFormat=tif"
 
cmd="convert"
for (( i = 1; i &lt; = 20; i++ ))
do
	src="$base$file&PageNum=$i"
	if [[ $i -lt 10 ]]
	then
		num="0"$i
	else
		num=""$i
	fi
	dst="${pat}_$num.tiff"
	wget --output-document "$dst" "$src"
 
	cmd="$cmd $dst"
	if [[ $i -eq 1 ]]; then
		cmd="$cmd -rotate -90"
	fi
	if [[ $i -eq 8 ]]; then
		cmd="$cmd -rotate 90"
	fi
done
cmd="$cmd $pat.pdf"
echo "$cmd"

Apple Patent Application “Swipe Gestures for Touch Screen Keyboards “

mro — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:30:54 +0000

E.g. golem reports a new patent application concerning touch screens.

As the US patent office website does only provide somewhat hard to handle TIFFs, I provided a bash script to download and convert them into one single pdf: Download and pdfify US Patent Application 20080316183.