At the TV of the future conference, Spare is demonstrating the basics of what Canesta’s technology can enable. It includes videos provided by Canesta that shows various different implementations of gesture controls for TVs and for extended TVs that can serve as entire household environmental control and multimedia centers. Using a tiny camera that sits on top of a TV, one can control the entertainment center by simply waving one’s hand in various ways. It is built by Kicker Studios using Canesta’s camera technology and the end results appear to work surprisingly well. Gesture controls have the potential to revolutionize the way one uses TVs and PCs as well as many other products. The sophisticated technology provided with Canesta’s 3-D sensor chips are proving to be the missing link to make this kind of technology on a mass market basis.

Canasta has invented and commercialized a family of low-cost chip based 3-D sensors that can be built into virtually anything – from TVs and PCs to cars and industrial equipment. To underscore the company’s leadership in 3-D sensing, it has announced that it has been granted 37 patents on a wide range of inventions that make electronic perception possible.

[Crunchgear]