Thursday, November 4, 2010

Deal gives Microsoft patents on smart airbags, pothole avoidance

Smart airbags, pothole avoidance - from Todd Bishop's Tech Flash

Deal gives Microsoft patents on smart airbags, pothole avoidance:

"Microsoft's agreement to acquire Canesta Inc., confirmed late last week, will give the Redmond company 44 patents and about two dozen patent applications covering various ways of enhancing a computer's senses -- including gesture recognition, depth perception, and real-time camera and sensor calibration. Taken as a whole, they show how Microsoft could give users new ways of interacting with future versions of its PC and mobile operating systems.

And then there's the smart airbag and the pothole-avoidance system."

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By Todd Bishop
Tech Flash,11/2

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