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Microsoft car gestures
Authored by: cpeterson on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 05:23 PM EDT
And another thing...

In many places it's illegal to use the cell phone while
driving.

So, MS is going to create a system where you use your hands
in exactly the same way as you would to use the cell phone
while driving, and you talk to it the same way you would if
you were voice dialing, but it's going to be legal because
you're only pretending to have the object in your hand?

If MS wanted to do society a favor, they should patent
stupidity, and then wage a massive war on infringers.

At least in that field they're not an NPE.

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It would give the 'blue screen of death' a whole new meaning. n/t
Authored by: squib on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 05:25 PM EDT
.

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Patenting Language
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 05:37 PM EDT

Kinda makes you wonder if some future patent Troll is going to claim someone making those gestures for another human to understand is guilty of patent infringement.

RAS

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Microsoft car gestures
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 06:15 PM EDT
MS supplies the software that is used for the ECU in F1 cars.

I'm pretty sure Fords Sync system is also an MS label.

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Microsoft car gestures
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 07:29 PM EDT
Isn't this the all-time classic example of functional claiming? These gestures
have been around for centuries. The only difference here is that they are being
recognised by a computer.

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Microsoft missing a gesture
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 11:00 PM EDT
One common gesture that all Windows users are familiar with that is missing is
to point the middle finger of the left hand down, then point the index finger of
the left hand down, then the index finger of the right hand down. Without a
CTRL-ALT-DEL gesture, how could the car go for more than an hour?

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Might be illegal here
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 28 2013 @ 04:35 AM EDT
The EU safety laws would tend to bar such things and in the UK driving
regulations are quite strict. As currently framed the two would seem to be very
much against such ideas.

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OBVIOUS - can not combine known tech to equal "new invention"
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 28 2013 @ 09:52 AM EDT
OBVIOUS - can not combine known tech to equal "new invention"

There was a supreme court ruling about this. The case had to do with pedals in
a car and a sensor to auto-adjust to leg length (supreme court said no patent,
due to combination such as that was obvious).

Wouldn't any system operating gesture in a car, be the same thing?

Well, the USPTO might grant the patent, MS then holds everyone up, until they
get slapped by the courts, however, they can keep the money gained by
"pressuring" for tech license of the patent up to when the court says
no way (however long that takes, maybe years and years).

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Microsoft car gestures
Authored by: JamesK on Friday, June 28 2013 @ 04:38 PM EDT
Besides, drivers have been making gestures ever since there were more than one
of them. ;-)


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Microsoft car gestures
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 28 2013 @ 10:16 PM EDT
Now, if it can detect gestures then it would be able to detect cell phone use,
take a picture, bring the car to a halt and call the police.

Tufty

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