Google
glass is one of the most important projects of the Google and which is
investing a lot of time and money to go ahead with this augmented reality
device that could well use Tom Cruise in "Mission Impossible."With
constant delays, it seems that will be released soon at a price of $
1,500. The purpose of Google
Glass is to display information available for users of "smartphone"
without using the hands, also allowing access to Internet using voice commands.
The Internet giant posted
a video illustrating the potential of this glass device. The augmented reality glasses from Google may still
reserve a surprise to its future users. A
last minute patent has revealed that it is possible that these will not
transmit the sound with a conventional headset, but by vibrations through the
skull bones. This technology is
known as 'bone conduction'.
A patent search reveals that the device will
use vibration arises due to head contact to transmit auditory information in
augmented reality glasses.
Sound travels
through the air in the form of pressure waves. The oscillation in turn transmits
vibrations to the cochlea, the place from which electrical impulses are sent to
the brain. Bone conduction
headphones, meanwhile, used the bones of the skull to transmit sound vibration
information. As the final
destination is the same as the inner ear will not see many differences.
Bone
conduction headphones have some advantages over the conventional ones. The bottom line is that no other block
outside sounds. With this
technology, Google Goggles could allow its users to send their messages without
stopping to hear the outside world of traffic, a conversation or even a song. Also do not damage the ear, and
transmit clear sound no matter how noisy the surroundings. For some years there
are teams that use this technique.
Its
main disadvantage is that they are not as effective at conveying the sense of
sound space. While conventional
headphones can exploit fully the properties 'stereo' of a song-and that can
place each instrument in-place, the bone conduction are more difficult to do
so.
The
transmission of sound through the skull bones is usually done by emitting
vibrations between the temple and jaw. Although
it is not clear in the text of the patent-which are always cumbersome-the Glass
Google could use this area, or who is behind the ear, to conduct audio output.
The
aim of Glass Google is to bring augmented reality to the public. The Californian based search engine
presented this project in last June at its annual conference for developers. They are a kind of overlay-glasses that
allow non-intrusively-relevant information about what your user sees. This latest patent suggests that the
Silicon Valley giant wants this gadget-whose first prototypes are about to
distribute a minimum-interference in the daily lives of its users.
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