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Wow 3D gesture sensor is really cool idea. This will throw up new applications ...
p_g
certainly gesture recognition is upcoming hot thing in market. I saw the company ...
Bosch invests in gesture chip firm
Peter Clarke
9/5/2011 7:42 AM EDT
LONDON – Robert Bosch Venture Capital has led an investment of 7.1 million euro (about $10 million) in Ident Technology AG (Gilching, Germany), a developer of electric field sensors that can be used for 3-D gesture recognition.
Bosch participated with existing investors MIG Funds and Danube Equity and the money is intended to support introduction of a 3D gesture recognition chip.
"Our Z-Sense technology is all about making the user experience natural, intuitive, simple and fun," said Roland Aubauer, chief technology officer of Ident, in a statement. "With our proximity technology already in production we have decided to take our innovations further and launch our own GestIC chip for the fast growing three-dimensional gesture control market in 2012."
The GestIC is set to address needs of mobile devices, consumer electronics and allows real-time tracking of free-space hand or finger movements in front of a device or display. The chip enables a broad range of signals from simple touch detection to complex 3-D movements.
The technology advantages lie in its range, high resolution, robustness and low power consumption, Ident said.
"We are convinced that their [Ident's] solutions will make groundbreaking contributions to the user interface world and are happy to support their mission," said Dieter Kraft, Investment Partner at Robert Bosch Venture Capital.
Ident was founded in 2002 by Peter Rosenbeck who has led the company as chairman of the board since then.
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GREAT-Terry
9/5/2011 9:30 PM EDT
Why Bosch has interest on this consumer oriented technology? I wonder if this is related to any of their mainstream business. BTW, gesture recognition is a good technology to invest.
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p_g
9/5/2011 10:37 PM EDT
certainly gesture recognition is upcoming hot thing in market. I saw the company products and the most amazing one is Gesture cube. Could be next big thing...
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yalanand
9/6/2011 1:35 AM EDT
Wow 3D gesture sensor is really cool idea. This will throw up new applications which can never be achieved through 2D gesture sensors. Way to go Bosch.
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