Sixth Sense Technology Sixth Sense

Sixth sense technology
SIXTH SENSE
NAME: Y.PRAGATHI
NAME: V.SUSHMA DEEPTHI
COLLEGE NAME: AITS
COLLEGE NAME: AITS
EMAIL_ID: [email protected]
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PHONE_NO: 9603328803
PHONE_NO: 9100409135
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 photowhich can later
organize with the others using own hands over the air. 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.
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INTRODUCTION
Weve 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,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
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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
peoples 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
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Sixth Sense 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.From thousands of years mankind used the five senses to gain
information. But now as this device is completely portable and it can provide information
about anything, it is named as SIXTH SENSE DEVICE.
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SIXTH SENSE TECHNOLOGY
2.1 What is Sixth Sense?
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 give 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 Sixth
sense Technology
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 doesnt require any behaviour changes. The wristband was getting close, but we still
had to take out our cell phone to look at the information. Thats 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
friends face.
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2.3 Recent Prototype
Figure 2.3: Present Device

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 users 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, 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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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 3.1.1: Camera

A webcam captures and recognises an object in view and tracks the users 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 micro-projector overlaying the information on any surface, including
the object itself or your hand.
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3.1.2 Projector
Figure 3.1.2: 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 viewobject, wall, or person.
3.1.3 Mirror
Figure 3.1.3: Mirror

The usage of the mirror is significant as the projector dangles pointing downwards from the
neck. The downward facing projector projects the output image on the mirror. The mirror
reflects image on the desired surface
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3.1.4 Mobile Component
Figure 3.1.4: 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
Sixth Sense software, and handles the connection to the internet. A Web-enabled smart phone
in the users pocket processes the video data. Other software searches the Web and interprets
the hand gestures.
3.1.5 Color Markers
Figure 3.1.5: Color Markers

It is at the tip of the users fingers. Marking the users fingers with red, yellow, green, and
blue tape helps the webcam recognize gestures. The movements and arrangements of these
makers are interpreted into gesture
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3.2 Working
Figure 3.2: 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 ones 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 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
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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
picoprojector: 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
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
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.
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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 .
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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
Figure5.1taking a picture
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Figure 5.2 Call up a map
Figure 5.3 Check the time
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Figure 5.4 Create multimedia reading experiences
Figure 5.5: Drawing
Figure 5.6.zoom in and zoom out
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Figure 5.7: Book information
Figure 5.8: Flight updates
Figure 5.9.feed information on people
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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 information
Supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction
Data access directly from machine in real time
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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 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 system.
To have 3D gesture tracking.
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. Clearly, this has the potential of becoming the ultimate
"transparent" user interface for accessing information about everything around us. If
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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.
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-look- atthe-world-forever
4. http://theviewspaper.net/sixth-sense-technology-will-revolutionize-the-world/
5. http://lucasrichter.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/pattie-maes-sixth-sense- technologywhats-stopping-this/
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