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Microsoft Surface is an interactive tabletop computer that allows direct interaction through touch and gestures without a keyboard or mouse. It has four key features - direct interaction, multi-touch ability, multi-user ability, and object recognition. The Surface uses infrared cameras underneath a acrylic diffuser to sense touch input, objects placed on the surface, and hand gestures, and projects the display onto the surface using rear projection. It can recognize input from multiple users simultaneously.

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Abstract

Microsoft Surface is an interactive tabletop computer that allows direct interaction through touch and gestures without a keyboard or mouse. It has four key features - direct interaction, multi-touch ability, multi-user ability, and object recognition. The Surface uses infrared cameras underneath a acrylic diffuser to sense touch input, objects placed on the surface, and hand gestures, and projects the display onto the surface using rear projection. It can recognize input from multiple users simultaneously.

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ABSTRACT

SURFACE COMPUTER

NIDHIN.P

S5 MCA
ROLL NO:14

Microsoft Surface is an interactive table top that can do everything a network computer can do plus more without using a keyboard or a mouse. There are four key features: direct interaction, multi-touch ability, multi-user ability, and object recognition. Direct interaction allows you to touch or grab digital information with your hands and use natural gestures to open, grasp, and command virtual objects, pages and images. The multi-touch feature enables the Surface to recognize many points of contact simultaneously so you can enlarge an image by touching the opposite corners and dragging them outwards. Along with the multi-touch feature, the shape and design of the Surface allows for multi-users at once, therefore, the user sitting across from you can be doing something completely different or independent of you. The last key feature, object recognition, enables the system to identify physical objects just by setting them on the Surface and to respond by displaying the appropriate software related to that item. Technical Aspects/Features: These all have the same basic framework using cameras to sense objects, hand gestures, and touch. The user input is then processed and displayed on the surface using rear projection. 1) Screen: The Surface has an acrylic tabletop which a diffuser makes capable of processing multiple inputs from multiple users. Objects can also be recognized by their shapes or reading coded tags. 2) Infrared: Infrared light is projected onto the underside of the diffuser. Objects or fingers are visible through the diffuser by series of infrared-sensitive cameras which are positioned underneath the surface of the tabletop. 3) CPU This is similar to a regular desktop. The underlying operating system is a modified version of Microsoft Vista. 4) Projector The Surface uses the same DLP light engine in many rear-projection tvs.

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