Samsung patent uses projector and electronic pen for virtual screen

We're a little confused, since yesterday the word was that Samsung had teamed up with Iljin Display for packing a projector into their phones, but we guess they need to have their bases covered. Samsung has just been granted a patent they submitted in 2004 for a virtual input interface, a bit similar to that virtual keyboard from iTech. It involves a phone-based projector, an "electronic pen," a "position detector" and some handwriting recognition stuff. Yeah, we know, real technical-like, but it sounds like yet another vain attempt to create a better way to input text and other info into a mobile phone. Can't fault them for trying, but let's hope the mind-reading efforts are well under way.

[Via Unwired View]

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 14th 2006 11:33AM]

This could be used for an electronic check. If the written check was signed by a user, then crypto signed with a users private key(asymmetric cryptography) you could have a secure electronic check.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 14th 2006 5:48PM]

Handwritten signs are stupid.

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