Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Patent filing reveals Google may be developing a contact lens camera - FierceMobileHealthcare

Patent filing reveals Google may be developing a contact lens camera - FierceMobileHealthcare: "Patent filing reveals Google may be developing a contact lens camera"



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report on Google patents claims the search titan may be making a contact lens featuring a computerized camera along with a sensor and an integrated, thin silicon chip.
"One of Google's many patent applications regarding future smart contact lenses generally relates to systems and/or methods for capturing image data representing a scene in a gaze of a viewer via a thin image capture component integrated on or within a contact lens, processing the image data, and employing the processed image data to perform functions locally on the contact lens or remotely on one or more remote devices," states the patent report.
The camera component can track and generate image data of an image of a scene corresponding to the gaze of the wearer, without obstructing the wearer's view, notes the report. 


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