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Microsoft Invents an Interesting Multipurpose Wireless Ring

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Last week the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Microsoft that revealed an invention relating to a possible future wearable accessory in the form of a ring. The highly sophisticated wireless ring could act as an interactive input device to control a cursor on a mobile device such as a smartphone or heads-up display. Interestingly, the ring can harvest energy and more. It's an interesting idea that could spill over to controlling TV menus and more.

 

Microsoft's patent FIG. 2 noted below depicts a schematic of one exemplary embodiment of the short range wireless powered ring that includes actuators to allow the ring to be used as an input device.

 

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Microsoft's patent FIG. 3 depicts an exemplary small interaction area on one embodiment of the short range wireless powered ring. The small interaction area is located towards the palm of a user's hand in this embodiment.

 

For example, the actuators can detect a user's contact and this user contact can be interpreted by a microprocessor on the ring. These user contacts can be interpreted by the microprocessor as scrolling actions and other types of user actuation commands, such as, for example, "listen to speech input", "select something", "start something", and so forth.

 

For more on this, see out full Patently Mobile report.

 

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