Intelligent Terminal: Human "Third Eye"

"Intelligent terminals" are developing into an extension of human organs. One extension is the "eye" extension. Even though it has evolved for millions of of years, human eyes have many limitations, such as the human eye is not likely to "spacer perspective", nor is it possible to think of the various backgrounds of these things from all the things that are seen. For example, if you go to a shopping center to buy a pair of special shoes, the mall is very big, it is possible that you stroll for an afternoon or can not buy shoes, and this pair of shoes are away from your close to the store.

The future "smart terminals" can solve this problem: it installed a series of sensors (including 1 or several cameras), installed the "augmented reality" software and accelerator, not only for people to increase the "third eye" and enhance the original performance of the eyes, but also increased the eye perspective, positioning, analysis and other new functions.

"Third Eye" is a technology developed according to the principle of computer vision, now in some smartphone app or "smart glasses" on the application, but because the intelligent terminal computing capacity is still far from the ability to achieve real-time operation, so some applications can only be preliminary "test water"; and "Third Eye" Also need a considerable database, such a database size, but also the current intelligent terminal can not afford.

Positioning with the third eye

Mobile positioning service is a business that has long been developed, but only based on text services. The position information obtained using the "Third Eye" is directly related to the position, or the image and image synthesis related to the object that the user sees, and there is no delay.

The intelligent terminal usually contains several sensors, including image sensor, GPS, compass, linear accelerator and gyroscope etc. Use GPS to locate and use the compass to orient. However, due to the size and power consumption restrictions, the quality of positioning is far from the professional GPS system with large antennas. Now the position has dozens of meters of error, and can not be located in the interior. The compass is only dozens of degrees in precision and is susceptible to interference from metal objects and electromagnetic fields.

and using the "Third Eye" positioning system can be in a large city immediately determine the user's current position, not only outdoors, but also indoors. This requires three-dimensional reconstruction of an environment. First, you need to scan your environment to create a database that contains accurate geographic information. Because the environment contains a lot of detail, the computing power needed to build such a database requires a powerful processor for future smart terminals.

"Third Eye" to "perspective"

When you go to the mall to buy shoes, you don't need to open the shoe box, you can know which style of shoes in this box. With a smartphone on the outside of the shoe box two-dimensional code or bar code, on the smart Terminal screen immediately show the appearance of the shoes, and with a variety of text introduction, such as brand, size, production date and origin and so on. With such a "third eye" perspective, it greatly saves time and labor in picking goods.

If you want to buy a music CD, you don't have to turn on the CD package, just align the smart terminal's camera with the design on the package, and the smart terminal will soon be able to play the CD's music and display the relevant information about the music on the screen.

You may often have trouble finding things in the office or at home, such as keys and stamps. With the development of the Internet of things, in the future, these items will be equipped with RFID or wireless sensors. Through the reception, and the "Third Eye" on the surrounding environment, the intelligent terminal can know the exact location of the object, and can be displayed on the screen "right Turn", "under the bed southeast corner" and other information, so that you immediately find these items.

"Third Eye" as division

With the "Third Eye", it can connect "see" to the knowledge base, through the other brain-the processor in the intelligent terminal thinking, the relevant knowledge and information displayed in front of you. For example, now the furniture to buy home, often need to assemble themselves. You can put smart terminals on the instructions, and immediately appear on the screen step-by-step How to assemble the detailed guidance of the video, equal to hands-on teaching you to assemble. Similarly, if smart terminals are targeted at newly bought home appliances, automobiles, printers, and so on, the instructions and instructions will be displayed immediately on the screen.

When you read textbooks and learn professional knowledge, the illustrations in the book can be "active". For example, learning that the electrons in physics revolve around an atomic nucleus, pointing the Smart terminal at the illustration, and seeing that the colored electrons are spinning around the nucleus constantly, deepens the understanding of this part of the knowledge.

You see the store has a lot of condiments, but do not know how to use it? All you have to do is use the "Third eye" to the two-dimensional code or bar code on this bottle of seasoning, and on the screen of the smart terminal you will soon be able to show the names, pictures and methods of the dishes cooked with this condiment.

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What are you going to wear when you get up in the morning and get ready for work? Smart terminals can pass the "Third eye" and have swept all the clothes in your closet, depending on the temperature of the day, attendance and so on to help you pick out the right clothes, and through the screen to try to show you. Similarly, when you are ready to buy new clothes, you can put "third eye" on yourself first, and then call the database (that is, every piece of clothing in the store) to "wear" to you in one piece, until you feel satisfied.

When you move to a new house to decorate and decorate, the third eye can help you. You just point the smart terminal to the place where you want to place the furniture, and then call the database, which is to put a variety of "virtual" furniture into this position, until the size of the appropriate, taste, style, color and so on are in line with your requirements.

For the advertising industry, the "Third Eye" may play a big role. For example, if you want to sell a Ma's book, the "Third Eye" on the cover of the book, Ma Yun will be lifelike display on the screen, to say hello to you say hello, hi! "And to explain to you the essence of the book." This is more attractive for children: the intelligent terminal aimed at toys, children's food on the cartoon image, these anime image will be from the packaging "out", into a real animation, but also with sound.

Museums and some tourist resorts are a great place for the "Third Eye" to play. With the intelligent terminal to the scene there, in addition to the introduction of local historical background of the text information, but also in the form of video to reproduce the history of the scene there, for tourists is a good study, both rich knowledge and enjoy entertainment. In the United States, San Diego Science and Technology Museum, there is a "magnetic field observation Station", which is the use of "Third Eye" is a good example. Visitors can observe the changes in the magnetic field through a smartphone, showing the three-dimensional movement of the magnetic lines on the screen. Visitors move the smartphone along a magnet to see the lines of magnetic lines at different angles.

Improve performance with "Third Eye"

The use of the "third eye" can deepen the user's understanding of the product and experience, increase the user's appeal to the product, so you can improve sales performance for manufacturers. Moosejaw, the US's top outdoor sportswear provider, has been using mobile apps to achieve "augmented reality". If you target smart-terminal cameras to the pictures in their catalog, "virtual" models will "walk out" in this dress. According to a recent report by the company, their sales have increased by 37% as the app has been heavily downloaded and used.

Another important application of the third eye is social networking. You can leave your "footprints" on an object or place, such as leaving your thoughts, comments, pictures, etc. When a friend of your circle of friends arrives at the site or sees the object, you can see your message, feelings, comments, or pictures with a "third eye" pointing at the site or object. Isn't that cool? Of course, do not have to let friends to see, you can use some kind of authorization method, so that certain people can see. This approach is useful in hosting large conferences: you want to leave a message to someone who attends a meeting, but the venue is too big to find him. At this point, you will be able to use the "augmented reality" technology in the conference participants to leave your message, and the person you are looking for, as long as the smart terminal to his chest card, you can immediately see your message.

In the American Consumer Electronics Exhibition 2015 CES, many manufacturers have shown the embryonic form of "the Third Eye". Modern cars, for example, show a "augmented reality" head-up display system, the system can transmit the road information that the vehicle scans to more concretely and vividly to the driver, including one-way signs, export information, etc. companies such as Sony, Samsung, Oculus, Jins and Atheers have released their own augmented reality glasses. This kind of glasses is an independent intelligent terminal. More are "augmented reality" apps included in smartphones. Several companies have "Third eye" in "wearable equipment".

The use of "Third eye" is the extension and enhancement of human senses, which will bring great changes to people's daily life and work. The above is just a very preliminary practical example, most of them are preliminary attempts. With the "Augmented reality", "with the further development of virtual reality and computer vision technology, with the further enhancement of processor computing power and the advent of new high-capacity memory chips, many existing technical barriers will gradually be eliminated, and the new application of" The Third Eye "of intelligent terminals will continue to emerge. By then, the third eye will really become a part of the human body. (This article will be published in the BT media? "Business Value" magazine February, author Zhang Xin, network exclusive first titanium media)

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)