A CONTACTLESS screen… Sounds like black magic, right? Wrong, those clever bods at JLR have used artificial intelligence and sensors as a way to control its infotainment systems without needing to touch the screen.
The patented technology, known as Predictive Touch, does what it says on the tin – it predicts a user’s intended target on the touchscreen – whether that’s satellite navigation, temperature controls or entertainment settings – without touching a button. How exactly? The tech uses AI to determine the item the user intends to select on the screen early in the pointing task, speeding up the interaction. A gesture tracker then uses vision-based or radio frequency-based sensors, which are increasingly common in consumer electronics, to combine contextual information such as user profile, interface design and environmental conditions…
