Aushapur(V) Ghatkesar(M) R.

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SIXTH SENSE TECHNOLOGY

Seminar Report

Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements

for the award of the degree of
Bachelor of Technology
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ABSTRACT

Sixth Sense Technology is a mini-projector coupled with a camera and a cellphone—

which acts as the computer and connected to the Cloud, all the information stored on
the web. Sixth Sense can also obey hand gestures. The camera recognizes objects
around a person instantly, with the micro-projector overlaying the information on any
surface, including the object itself or hand.
Also can access or manipulate the information using fingers. make a call by Extend
hand on front of the projector and numbers will appear for to click. know the time by
Draw a circle on wrist and a watch will appear. take a photo by Just make a square
with fingers, highlighting what want to frame, and the system will make the photo—
which can later organize with the others using own hands over the air.and The device
has a huge number of applications , it is portable and easily to carry as can wear it in
neck.

The drawing application lets user draw on any surface by observing the movement of
index finger. Mapping can also be done anywhere with the features of zooming in or
zooming out. The camera also helps user to take pictures of the scene is viewing and
later can arrange them on any surface. Some of the more practical uses are reading a
newspaper. reading a newspaper and viewing videos instead of the photos in the paper.
Or live sports updates while reading the newspaper.

The device can also tell arrival, departure or delay time of air plane on tickets. For
book lovers it is nothing less than a blessing. Open any book and find the Amazon
ratings of the book. To add to it, pick any page and the device gives additional
information on the text, comments and lot more add on feature.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER NO TITLE PAGE NO.

ABSTRACT

1. INTRODUCTION 5

2. SIXTH SENSE TECHNOLOGY

2.1 WHAT IS SIXTH SENSE 6

2.2 EARLIER SIXTH SENSE PROTOTYPE 6

2.3 RECENT PROTOYPE 8

3. WORKING OF SIXTH SENSE

3.1 COMPONENTS 10
3.1.1 CAMERA 10
3.1.2 PROJECTOR 11
3.1.3 MIRROR 11
3.1.4 MOBILE COMPONENT 12
3.1.5 COLOR MARKERS 12
3.2 WORKING 13

4. RELATED TECHNOLOGY
4.1 AUGMENTED REALITY 17
4.2 GESTURE RECOGNITION 19
4.3 COMPUTER VISION BASED ALGORITHM 21

4.4TECHNOLOGIES THAT USES SIXTH SENSE

AS PLATFORM 22

5. APPLICATIONS

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5.1 MAKE A CALL 26

5.2 CALL UP A MAP 27
5.3 CHECK THE TIME 27
5.4 CREATE MULTIMEDIA 28
5.5 DRAWING APPLICATION 29
5.6 ZOOM IN AND ZOOM OUT 29
5.7 PRODUCT INFORMATION 30
5.8 BOOK INFORMATION 30
5.9 TAKING PICTURE 31
5.10 FLIGHT UPDATE 31
5.11 FEED INFORMATION ON PEOPLE 32

6. ADVANTAGES AND ENHANCEMENTS

6.1 ADVANTAGES 33
6.2FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS 33

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INTRODUCTION
We’ve evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. When we encounter something,
someone or some place, we use our five natural senses which includes eye, ear, nose, tongue mind and
body to perceive information about it; that information helps us make decisions and chose the right
actions to take. But arguably the most useful information that can help us make the right decision is not
naturally perceivable with our five senses, namely the data, information and knowledge that mankind
has accumulated about everything and which is increasingly all available online.

Although the miniaturization of computing devices allows us to carry computers in our pockets, keeping
us continually connected to the digital world, there is no link between our digital devices and our
interactions with the physical world. Information is confined traditionally on paper or digitally on a
screen. SixthSense bridges this gap, bringing intangible, digital information out into the tangible world,
and allowing us to interact with this information via natural hand gestures. ‘SixthSense’ frees
information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world
your computer.

“Sixth Sense Technology”, it is the newest jargon that has proclaimed its presence in the technical arena.
This technology has emerged, which has its relation to the power of these six senses. Our ordinary
computers will soon be able to sense the different feelings accumulated

in the surroundings and it is all a gift of the ”Sixth Sense Technology” newly introduced.

SixthSense is a wearable “gesture based” device that augments the physical world with digital
information and lets people use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. It was developed
by Pranav Mistry, a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab. A grad student
with the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT, he caused a storm with his creation of SixthSense. He says that
the movies “Robocop” and “Minority Report” gave him the inspiration to create his view of a world not
dominated by computers, digital information and human robots, but one where computers and other
digital devices enhance people’s enjoyment of the physical world.

Right now, we use our “devices” (computers, mobile phones, tablets, etc.) to go into the internet and get
information that we want. With SixthSense we will use a device no bigger than current cell phones and
probably eventually as small as a button on our shirts to bring the internet to us in order to interact with
our world!

SixthSense will allow us to interact with our world like never before. We can get information on
anything we want from anywhere within a few moments! We will not only be able to interact with
things on a whole new level but also with people! One great part of the device is its ability to scan
objects or even people and project out information regarding what you are looking at.

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Chapter 2
SIXTH SENSE TECHNOLOGY
2.1 What is SixthSense?

Figure 2.1: Six Senses

Sixth Sense in scientific (or non-scientific) terms is defined as Extra Sensory Perception or in short ESP.

It involves the reception of information not gained through any of the five senses. Nor is it taken from

any experiences from the past or known. Sixth Sense aims to more seamlessly integrate online

information and tech into everyday life. By making available information needed for decision-making

beyond what we have access to with our five senses, it effectively gives users a sixth sense.

2.2 Earlier SixthSense Prototype

Figure 2.2: Earlier Device

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Maes’ MIT group, which includes seven graduate students, were thinking about how a person could be

more integrated into the world around them and access information without having to do something

like take out a phone. They initially produced a wristband that would read an Radio Frequency

Identification tag to know, for example, which book a user is holding in a store. They also had a ring

that used infrared to communicate by beacon to supermarket smart shelves to give you information

about products. As we grab a package of macaroni, the ring would glow red or green to tell us if the

product was organic or free of peanut traces — whatever criteria we program into the system. They

wanted to make information more useful to people in real time with minimal effort in a way that

doesn’t require any behaviour changes. The wristband was getting close, but we still had to take out

our cell phone to look at the information. That’s when they struck on the idea of accessing information

from the internet and projecting it. So someone wearing the wristband could pick up a paperback in

the bookstore and immediately call up reviews about the book, projecting them onto a surface in the

store or doing a keyword search through the book by accessing digitized pages on Amazon or Google

books. They started with a larger projector that was mounted on a helmet. But that proved

cumbersome if someone was projecting data onto a wall then turned to speak to friend — the data

would project on the friend’s face.

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2.3 Recent Prototype

Figure 2.3: Present Device

Now they have switched to a smaller projector and created the pendant prototype to be

worn around the neck.

The SixthSense prototype is composed of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The

hardware components are coupled in a pendant-like mobile wearable device. Both the

projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket.

We can very well consider the Sixth Sense Technology as a blend of the computer and the

cell phone. It works as the device associated to it is hanged around the neck of a person and

thus the projection starts by means of the micro projector attached to the device. Therefore, in

course, you turn out to be a moving computer in yourself and the fingers act like a mouse and

a keyboard.

The prototype was built from an ordinary webcam and a battery-powered 3M projector,

with an attached mirror — all connected to an internet-enabled mobile phone. The setup,

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which costs less than $350, allows the user to project information from the phone onto any

surface — walls, the body of another person or even your hand.

Mistry wore the device on a lanyard around his neck, and colored Magic Marker caps on

four fingers (red, blue, green and yellow) helped the camera distinguish the four fingers and

recognize his hand gestures with software that Mistry created.

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Chapter 3
WORKING OF SIXTH SENSE TECHNOLOGY

3.1 Components
The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device.

 Camera
 Projector
 Mirror
 Mobile Component
 Color Markers

3.1.1 Camera

Figure 3.1: Camera

A webcam captures and recognises an object in view and tracks the user’s hand gestures

using computer-vision based techniques.

It sends the data to the smart phone. The camera, in a sense, acts as a digital eye, seeing

what the user sees. It also tracks the movements of the thumbs and index fingers of both of

the user's hands. The camera recognizes objects around you instantly, with the microprojector

overlaying the information on any surface, including the object itself or your hand.

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3.1.2 Projector

Figure 3.2: Projector

Also, a projector opens up interaction and sharing. The project itself contains a battery inside, with 3
hours of battery life. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical
objects around us to be used as interfaces. We want this thing to merge with the physical world in a
real physical sense. You are touching that object and projecting info onto that object. The
information will look like it is part of the object. A tiny LED projector displays data sent from the
smart phone on any surface in view–object, wall, or person.

. 3.1.3 Mirror

Figure 3.3: Mirror

The usage of the mirror is significant as the projector dangles pointing downwards from

the neck.

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3.1.4 Mobile Component

Figure 3.4: Smartphone

The mobile devices like Smartphone in our pockets transmit and receive voice and data

anywhere and to anyone via the mobile internet. An accompanying Smartphone runs the

SixthSense software, and handles the connection to the internet. A Web-enabled smart phone

in the user’s pocket processes the video data. Other software searches the Web and interprets

the hand gestures.

3.1.5 Color Markers

Figure 3.5: Color Markers

It is at the tip of the user’s fingers. Marking the user’s fingers with red, yellow, green, and

blue tape helps the webcam recognize gestures. The movements and arrangements of these

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makers are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected

application interfaces.

3.2 Working

Figure 3.6: Working

 The hardware that makes Sixth Sense work is a pendant like mobile wearable interface
 It has a camera, a mirror and a projector and is connected wirelessly to a Bluetooth or 3G or wifi
smart phone that can slip comfortably into one’s pocket
 The camera recognizes individuals, images, pictures, gestures one makes with their hands
 Information is sent to the Smartphone for processing
 The downward-facing projector projects the output image on to the mirror
 Mirror reflects image on to the desired surface
 Thus, digital information is freed from its confines and placed in the physical world

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The entire hardware apparatus is encompassed in a pendant-shaped mobile wearable

device. Basically the camera recognises individuals, images, pictures, gestures one makes

with their hands and the projector assists in projecting any information on whatever type of

surface is present in front of the person. The usage of the mirror is significant as the projector

dangles pointing downwards from the neck. To bring out variations on a much higher plane,

in the demo video which was broadcasted to showcase the prototype to the world, Mistry uses

coloured caps on his fingers so that it becomes simpler for the software to differentiate

between the fingers, demanding various applications.

The software program analyses the video data caught by the camera and also tracks down

the locations of the coloured markers by utilising single computer vision techniques. One can

have any number of hand gestures and movements as long as they are all reasonably

identified and differentiated for the system to interpret it, preferably through unique and

varied fiducials. This is possible only because the ‘Sixth Sense’ device supports multi-touch

and multi-user interaction.

MIT basically plans to augment reality with a pendant pico projector: hold up an object at

the store and the device blasts relevant information onto it (like environmental stats, for

instance), which can be browsed and manipulated with hand gestures. The "sixth sense" in

question is the internet, which naturally supplies the data, and that can be just about anything

-- MIT has shown off the device projecting information about a person you meet at a party on

that actual person (pictured), projecting flight status on a boarding pass, along with an entire

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non-contextual interface for reading email or making calls. It's pretty interesting technology

that, like many MIT Media Lab projects, makes the wearer look like a complete dork -- if the

projector doesn't give it away, the colored finger bands the device uses to detect finger

motion certainly might.

The idea is that SixthSense tries to determine not only what someone is interacting with,

but also how he or she is interacting with it. The software searches the internet for

information that is potentially relevant to that situation, and then the projector takes over.

All the work is in the software," says Dr Maes. "The system is constantly trying to figure

out what's around you, and what you're trying to do. It has to recognize the images you see,

track your gestures, and then relate it all to relevant information at the same time."

The software recognizes 3 kinds of gestures:

 Multitouch gestures, like the ones you see in Microsoft Surface or the iPhone --

where you touch the screen and make the map move by pinching and dragging.

 Freehand gestures, like when you take a picture [as in the photo above]. Or, you

might have noticed in the demo, because of my culture, I do a namaste gesture to start the projection on

the wall.

 Iconic gestures, drawing an icon in the air. Like, whenever I draw a star, show me the

weather. When I draw a magnifying glass, show me the map. You might want to use

other gestures that you use in everyday life. This system is very customizable.

The technology is mainly based on hand gesture recognition, image capturing, processing,

and manipulation, etc. The map application lets the user navigate a map displayed on a

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nearby surface using hand gestures, similar to gestures supported by multi-touch based

systems, letting the user zoom in, zoom out or pan using intuitive hand movements. The

drawing application lets the user draw on any surface by tracking the fingertip movements of

the user’s index finger.

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Chapter 4

RELATED TECHNOLOGIES

SixthSense’ technology takes a different approach to computing and tries to make the

digital aspect of our lives more intuitive, interactive and, above all, more natural. We

shouldn’t have to think about it separately. It’s a lot of complex technology squeezed into a

simple portable device. When we bring in connectivity, we can get instant, relevant visual

information projected on any object we pick up or interact with The technology is mainly

based on hand augmented reality, gesture recognition, computer vision based algorithm etc.

4.1 Augmented reality

Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical realworld

environment whose elements are augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery. It

is related to a more general concept called mediated reality in which a view of reality is

modified (possibly even diminished rather than augmented) by a computer. The augmentation

is conventionally in real-time and in semantic context with environmental elements.

Sixth sense technology which uses Augmented Reality concept to super imposes digital

information on the physical world. With the help of advanced AR technology (e.g. adding

computer vision and object recognition) the information about the surrounding real world of

the user becomes interactive and digitally usable. Artificial information about the

environment and the objects in it can be stored and retrieved as an information layer on top of

the real world view.

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The main hardware components for augmented reality are: display, tracking, input

devices, and computer. Combination of powerful CPU, camera, accelerometers, GPS and

solid state compass are often present in modern Smartphone, which make them prospective

platforms. There are three major display techniques for Augmented Reality:

 Head Mounted Displays

 Handheld Displays
 Spatial Displays

 Head Mounted Displays

A Head Mounted Display (HMD) places images of both the physical world and registered

virtual graphical objects over the user's view of the world. The HMD's are either optical seethrough

or video see-through in nature.

 Handheld Displays

Handheld Augment Reality employs a small computing device with a display that fits in a

user's hand. All handheld AR solutions to date have employed video see-through techniques

to overlay the graphical information to the physical world. Initially handheld AR employed

sensors such as digital compasses and GPS units for its six degree of freedom tracking

sensors.

 Spatial Displays

Instead of the user wearing or carrying the display such as with head mounted displays or

handheld devices; Spatial Augmented Reality (SAR) makes use of digital projectors to

display graphical information onto physical objects.

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Modern mobile augmented reality systems use one or more of the following tracking

technologies: digital cameras and/or other optical sensors, RFID, wireless sensors etc. Each

of these technologies have different levels of accuracy and precision. Most important is the

tracking of the pose and position of the user's head for the augmentation of the user's view.

For users with disabilities of varying kinds, AR has real potential to help people with a

variety of disabilities. Only some of the current and future AR applications make use of a

Smartphone as a mobile computing platform.

4.2 Gesture Recognition

Gesture recognition is a topic in computer science and language technology with the

goal of interpreting human gestures via mathematical algorithms. Gestures can originate from

any bodily motion or state but commonly originate from the face or hand. Current focuses in

the field include emotion recognition from the face and hand gesture recognition. Many

approaches have been made using cameras and computer vision algorithms to interpret sign

language.

Gestures can exist in isolation or involve external objects. Free of any object, we wave,

beckon, fend off, and to a greater or lesser degree (depending on training) make use of

more formal sign languages. With respect to objects, we have a broad range of gestures

that are almost universal, including pointing at objects, touching or moving objects,

changing object shape, activating objects such as controls, or handing objects to others.

Gesture recognition can be seen as a way for computers to begin to understand human

body language, thus building a richer bridge between machines and humans than primitive

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text user interfaces or even GUIs (graphical user interfaces), which still limit the majority of

input to keyboard and mouse. Gesture recognition enables humans to interface with the

machine (HMI) and interact naturally without any mechanical devices.

Gestures can be used to communicate with a computer so we will be mostly concerned

with empty handed semiotic gestures. These can further be categorized according to their

functionality.

 Symbolic gestures

These are gestures that, within each culture, have come to a single meaning. An Emblem

such as the “OK” gesture is one such example, however American Sign Language gestures

also fall into this category.

 Deictic gestures

These are the types of gestures most generally seen in HCI and are the gestures of

pointing, or otherwise directing the listeners attention to specific event or objects in the

environment.

 Iconic gestures

As the name suggests, these gestures are used to convey information about the size, shape

or orientation of the object of discourse. They are the gestures made when someone says

“The plane flew like this”, while moving their hand through the air like the flight path of the

aircraft.

 Pantomimic gestures:

These are the gestures typically used in showing the use of movement of some invisible

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tool or object in the speaker’s hand. When a speaker says “I turned the steering wheel hard to

the left”, while mimicking the action of turning a wheel with both hands, they are making a

pantomimic gesture.

Using the concept of gesture recognition, it is possible to point a finger at the computer

screen so that the cursor will move accordingly. This could potentially make conventional

input devices such as mouse, keyboards and even touch-screens redundant. Gesture

recognition can be conducted with techniques from computer vision and image processing.

The literature includes ongoing work in the computer vision field on capturing gestures or

more general human pose and movements by cameras connected to a computer.

4.3 Computer vision based algorithm

Computer vision is the science and technology of machines that see. As a scientific

discipline, computer vision is concerned with the theory behind artificial systems that extract

information from images. The image data can take many forms, such as video sequences,

views from multiple cameras, or multi-dimensional data from a medical scanner.

Computer vision, on the other hand, studies and describes the processes implemented in

software and hardware behind artificial vision systems. The software tracks the user’s

gestures using computer-vision based algorithms. Computer vision is, in some ways, the

inverse of computer graphics. While computer graphics produces image data from 3D

models, computer vision often produces 3D models from image data. There is also a trend

towards a combination of the two disciplines, e.g., as explored in augmented reality.

The fields most closely related to computer vision are image processing, image analysis

and machine vision. Image processing and image analysis tend to focus on 2D images, how

to transform one image to another. his characterization implies that image processing/analysis
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neither require assumptions nor produce interpretations about the image content. Computer

vision tends to focus on the 3D scene projected onto one or several images, e.g., how to

reconstruct structure or other information about the 3D scene from one or several images. Machine

vision tends to focus on applications, mainly in manufacturing, e.g., vision based

autonomous robots and systems for vision based inspection or measurement.

The Recognition Algorithms

The computer vision system for tracking and recognizing the hand postures that control

the menus is based on a combination of multi-scale color feature detection, view based

hierarchical hand models and particle filtering. The hand postures or states are represented in

terms of hierarchies of multi-scale color image features at different scales, with qualitative

inter-relations in terms of scale, position and orientation. In each image, detection of

multiscale color features is performed. The hand postures are then simultaneously detected

and tracked using particle filtering, with an extension of layered sampling referred to as

hierarchical layered sampling. To improve the performance of the system, a prior on skin

color is included in the particle filtering.

4.4 Technologies that uses Sixth Sense as Platform

SixthSense technology takes a different approach to computing and tries to make the

digital aspect of our lives more intuitive, interactive and, above all, more natural. When you

bring in connectivity, you can get instant, relevant visual information projected on any object

you pick up or interact with. So, pick up a box of cereal and your device will project whether

it suits your preferences. Some of the technologies that uses this are Radio Frequency

Identification, gesture gaming, washing machine.

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4.4.1 Radio Frequency Identification

SixthSense is a platform for Radio Frequency Identification based enterprise intelligence

that combines Radio Frequency Identification events with information from other enterprise

systems and sensors to automatically make inferences about people, objects, workspaces, and

their interactions.

Radio Frequency Identification is basically an electronic tagging technology that allows

the detection and tracking of tags and consequently the objects that they are affixed to. This

ability to do remote detection and tracking coupled with the low cost of passive tags has led

to the widespread adoption of RFID in supply chains worldwide.

Pranav Mistry, a researcher at the media lab of the Massachusetts Institute Technology,

has developed a 'sixth sense' device – a gadget worn on the wrist that can function as a 'touch

screen' device for many modern applications. The gadget is capable of selecting a product

either by image recognition or radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and project

information, like an Amazon rating.

The idea of SixthSense is to use Radio Frequency Identification technology in conjunction with

a bunch of other enterprise systems such as the calendar system or online presence that can track user

activity. Here, we consider an enterprise setting of the future where people (or rather their employee

badges) and their personal objects such as books, laptops, and mobile phones are tagged with cheap,

passive RFID tags, and there is good coverage of RFID readers in the workplace.

SixthSense incorporates algorithms that start with a mass of undifferentiated tags and

automatically infer a range of information based on an accumulation of observations. The technology

is able to automatically differentiate between people tags and object tags, learn the identities of

people, infer the ownership of objects by people, learn the nature of different zones in a workspace

(e.g., private office versus conference room), and perform other such inferences.

By combining information from these diverse sources, SixthSense records all tag-level events in a

raw database. The inference algorithms consume these raw events to infer events at the level of
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people, objects, and workspace zones, which are then recorded in a separate processed database.

Applications can either poll these databases by running SQL queries or set up triggers to be notified of

specific events of interest.

SixthSense infers when a user has interacted with an object, for example, when you pick up

your mobile phone. It is a platform in that its programming model makes the inferences made

automatically available to applications via a rich set of APIs. To demonstrate the capabilities of the

platform, the researchers have prototyped a few applications using these APIs, including a misplaced

object alert service, an enhanced calendar service, and rich annotation of video with physical events.

4.4.2 Sixth Sense Washing Machine

Whirlpool AWOE 8758 White Washing Machine is a remarkable front loader that

incorporates the unparalleled Sixth Sense technology. Whirlpool’s 2009 range of washing

machines comes integrated with enhanced 6th sense technology that gives more optimisation

of resources and also increased saving in terms of energy, water and time.

Ideal washing machine for thorough washing that requires sixth sense to detect stubborn

stains and adjust wash impact. It is a feature packed washing ally with Sixth Sense

Technology and several customized programs to enhance the washing performance and

dexterously assist you in heavy washing loads.

The New Generation 6th Sense appliances from Whirlpool are helping to protect the

environment and to reduce your energy bills. Whirlpool 6th Sense appliances are designed to

be intelligent and energy efficient appliances that adapt their performance to better suit your

needs. All Whirlpool appliances with intelligent 6th Sense technology work on three key

principles; Sense, Adaption and Control, to ensure that they achieve optimal performance

each and every time that they are used.

Whirlpool 6th Sense washing machines can save you up to 50% less water, energy and

time during the cycle. These intelligent machines sense the size of the load and adjust and
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control the cycle dependent on the load inside in order to optimise the use of water, energy

and time. Some models also contain a detergent overdosing monitor to make sure that you do

not use too much washing detergent. Tumble dryers use 6th Sense technology to minimise

energy and time wastage by monitoring the humidity inside your laundry and adjusting the

drying time accordingly.

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Chapter 5

APPLICATIONS

The SixthSense prototype implements several applications that demonstrate the usefulness, viability and
flexibility of the system.

The SixthSense device has a huge number of applications. The following are few of the applications of
Sixth Sense Technology.

 Make a call
 Call up a map
 Check the time
 Create multimedia reading experience
 Drawing application
 Zooming features
 Get product information
 Get book information
 Get flight updates
 Feed information on people
 Take pictures
 Check the email

Make a call

Figure 5.1: Make a call

You can use the Sixth Sense to project a keypad onto your hand, then use that virtual

keypad to make a call. Calling a number also will not be a great task with the introduction of

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Sixth Sense Technology. No mobile device will be required, just type in the number with

your palm acting as the virtual keypad. The keys will come up on the fingers. The fingers of

the other hand will then be used to key in the number and call.

5.2 Call up a map

Figure 5.2: Map

The sixth sense also implements map which lets the user display the map on any

physical surface and find his destination and he can use his thumbs and index fingers to

navigate the map, for example, to zoom in and out and do other controls.

5.3 Check the time

Figure 5.3: Wrist Watch

Sixth Sense all we have to do is draw a circle on our wrist with our index finger to get a virtual

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watch that gives us the correct time. The computer tracks the red marker cap or piece of tape,

recognizes the gesture, and instructs the projector to flash the image of a watch onto his wrist.

5.4 Create multimedia reading experiences

Figure 5.4: Video in Newspaper

The SixthSense system also augments physical objects the user is interacting with by

projecting more information about these objects projected on them. For example, a

newspaper can show live video news or dynamic information can be provided on a regular

piece of paper. Thus a piece of paper turns into a video display.

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5.5 Drawing application

Figure 5.5:

The drawing application lets the user draw on any surface by tracking the fingertip

movements of the user’s index finger.

5.6 Zooming features

Figure 5.6: Zoom in and Zoom out

The user can zoom in or zoom out using intuitive hand movements.

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5.7 Get product information

Figure 5.7: Product information

Maes says Sixth Sense uses image recognition or marker technology to recognize

products you pick up, then feeds you information on those products. For example, if you're

trying to shop "green" and are looking for paper towels with the least amount of bleach in

them, the system will scan the product you pick up off the shelf and give you guidance on

whether this product is a good choice for you.

5.8 Get book information

Figure 5.8: Book information

Maes says Sixth Sense uses image recognition or marker technology to recognize

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products you pick up, then feeds you information on books. The system can project Amazon

ratings on that book, as well as reviews and other relevant information

5.9 Take pictures

Figure 5.9: Take Pictures

If we fashion our index fingers and thumbs into a square (the typical "framing" gesture),

the system will snap a photo. After taking the desired number of photos, we can project them

onto a surface, and use gestures to sort through the photos, and organize and resize them.

5.10 Get flight updates

Figure 5.10: Flight updates

The system will recognize your boarding pass and let you know whether your flight is on

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time and if the gate has changed.

5.11 Feed information on people

Figure 5.11: Information on people

Sixth Sense also is capable of "a more controversial use”. When you go out and meet

someone, projecting relevant information such as what they do, where they work, and also m

it could display tags about the person floating on their shirt. It could be handy if it displayed

their facebook relationship status so that you knew not to waste your time.

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Chapter 6
ADVANTAGES AND ENHANCEMENTS.

6.1 Advantages
 SixthSense is an user friendly interface which integrates digital information into the
physical world and its objects, making the entire world your computer.
 SixthSense does not change human habits but causes computer and other machines to
adapt to human needs.
 It uses hand gestures to interact with digital information.
 Supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction
 Data access directly from machine in real time
 It is an open source and cost effective and we can mind map the idea anywhere
 It is gesture-controlled wearable computing device that feeds our relevant information
and turns any surface into an interactive display.
 It is portable and easy to carry as we can wear it in our neck.
 The device could be used by anyone without even a basic knowledge of a keyboard or
mouse.
 There is no need to carry a camera anymore. If we are going for a holiday, then from
now on wards it will be easy to capture photos by using mere fingers

6.2 Future Enhancements

 To get rid of color markers
 To incorporate camera and projector inside mobile computing device.
 Whenever we place pendant- style wearable device on table, it should allow us to
 use the table as multi touch user interface.
 Applying this technology in various interest like gaming, education systems etc.
 To have 3D gesture tracking.
 To make sixth sense work as fifth sense for disabled person.

CONCLUSION
The key here is that Sixth Sense recognizes the objects around you, displaying
information automatically and letting you access it in any way you want, in the simplest way
possible.
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accessing information about everything around us. If they can get rid of the colored finger
caps and it ever goes beyond the initial development phase, that is. But as it is now, it may
change the way we interact with the real world and truly give everyone complete awareness
of the environment around us.

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REFERENCES
1. www.blendernation.com/sixth-sense-technology/

2. http://boingboing.net/2009/11/12/sixth-sense-technolo.html

3. http://gizmodo.com/5167790/sixth-sense-technology-may-change-how-we-lookat-
the-world-forever

4. http://theviewspaper.net/sixth-sense-technology-will-revolutionize-the-world/

5. http://lucasrichter.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/pattie-maes-sixth-sensetechnology-
whats-stopping-this/

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