Texas Instruments' OMAP(TM) 4 technology delivers market-leading applications and uses cases that will change the way consumers 'watch' and 'interact' with their mobile devices
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- This week at Mobile World Congress, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) shared its vision for the mobile future, unveiling new use cases that will dramatically change how consumers "watch" and "interact" with mobile devices. Leading the next wave of mobile use cases will be a set of applications classified as Human Device Interactions (HDI). TI's OMAP™ 4 platform is uniquely positioned to make leading features such as multiple displays, projection technology and gesturing capabilities – features critical to supporting HDI use cases – a reality. In fact, TI expects the world's first "touchless gesture-recognition" and "3D-HD" (three-dimensional, high definition) mobile devices – enabled by TI's powerful OMAP 4 processor platform – to debut within the coming year. By simplifying common tasks and making the user interfaces more intuitive, these new capabilities will change how people capture and watch multimedia content, and how they interface with and control mobile devices. (For more information on how TI's OMAP platform will deliver the mobile future, visit: www.ti.com/omap4visionpr.)
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"TI envisions a near-term mobile future that will be vastly different than today's mobile environment," said Remi El-Ouazzane, vice president and general manager of TI's OMAP Platform Business Unit. "Similar to how the touchscreen changed the way we interact with our devices, touchless gesturing and 3D-HD mobile capabilities will take experiences to the next level and radically change how we connect to our devices and the things around us. TI is excited to play a key role with our customers in this revolution."
OMAP technology revolutionizes how people "interact," "watch" and "see" with mobile devices:
Sampling now, TI's OMAP 4 platform is the fourth generation of a proven, powerful system-on-chip that includes an optimal balance of power efficiency and high performance. This sophisticated architecture is the ideal platform for enabling this "mobile future." The OMAP 4 platform provides the optimal mix of interfaces, processing power and the flexibility required to address the computational complexity of algorithms required to support vision analytics and other HDI applications. For example, the OMAP 4 platform is the only mobile applications processor that can deliver stereoscopic 720p at 30 frames per second (fps) per channel or enable true 3D image capture, both crucial elements for delivering comprehensive "3D-HD" experiences. OMAP 4 enables many HDI scenarios including:
Consumer
application How does it work OMAP 4 platform uniquely delivers
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Touchless Single, low-cost --Gesture recognition software
gesturing: 2D camera, running on the industry-leading
Gesture- combined with C6x-based DSP architecture,
driven object recognition which improves performance,
user software, allows reduces power and allows
interface, mobile devices to concurrency with multiple
whereby track and applications
single or recognize body, --TI's powerful Image Signal
multiple hand and finger Processor (ISP), which provides
finger gestures robustness to precisely
gestures recognize gestures in low or
"in the bright light conditions
air" can be
used as a
virtual
touch
screen
Multiple Spreads content --TI's feature-rich display
display across multiple controller, supports three
support: displays, or uses high-resolution displays in
Multiple multiple screens parallel, each with its own
screens to provide unique content
can be viewed different
simultaneously, dimensions of
allowing user information
to view and
digest
information
at the
same time
Interactive OMAP 4 processor --Tight coupling with TI DLP(R)
projection: dynamically Pico(TM) projector technology,
User can manipulates a allowing for real time
"point projected image manipulation and interaction
and click" and syncs it with with the projected image
on projected the on-device
images camera
Stereoscopic Integrating two --Building on more than a decade
3D imaging: cameras on device, of experience, TI's IVA3 imaging
HD-quality a mobile device engine supports up to 720p 30fps
3D capture can perceive depth stereoscopic 3D video record and
and viewing to generate playback
stereoscopic 3D --TI's best-in-class ISP also
images from the supports stereoscopic 3D cameras
combination of --The advanced display
right and left controller from TI supports
images, bringing a auto-stereoscopic displays,
"3D-HD" creating a 3D image without the
experience to your need for special headgear or
eyes and ears glasses, as well as providing
support for external 3D
monitors
Object Devices will --Flexible DSP supports vision
recognition: interpret specific analytic software to aid in
Enables objects in the visual recognition and data
face, logo pictures or interpretation
and object preview, providing --Leveraging TI's proven ISP
recognition real-time relevant allows access to integrated
captured information on a face detection hardware
by a given object
mobile
device
(For more information on TI's OMAP 4 platform, visit: www.ti.com/omap4)
TI ecosystem in place to enable the "mobile future"
To realize this vision of the "mobile future", TI has partnered with key companies in its OMAP ecosystem. Visitors to Mobile World Congress can experience the following demonstrations in TI's booth (8A84, Hall 8):
- Touchless gesturing running on the OMAP platform, which allows users to point, scroll and click "in the air" to control a graphical user interfaces (UIs)
- An advanced 3D UI runs on multiple displays, showing how new interface capabilities will shape future device usage models
- Dual displays show how enhanced mobile browsing experiences bring social media-like environments to consumers' pockets
- Next-generation sensor input combined with visual and physical feedback to control mobile UI and displays in response to user-generated motion, touch input and pressure
About Texas Instruments
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