Laser projected keyboard

By Keegan

Design
The laser or beamer projects visible virtual keyboard onto level surface. A sensor or camera in
the projector picks up finger movements[1] Software converts the coordinates to identify actions
or characters.
Some devices project a second (invisible infrared) beam above the virtual keyboard. The user's
finger makes a keystroke on the virtual keyboard. This breaks the infrared beam and reflects light
back to the projector. The reflected beam passes through an infrared filter to the camera. The
camera photographs the angle of incoming infrared light. The sensor chip determines where
infrared beam was broken. Software determines the action or character to be generated.
The projection is realized in four main steps and via three modules: projection module, sensor
module and illumination module. The main devices and technologies used to project the image
are a diffractive optical element, red laser diode, CMOS sensor chip and an infrared (IR) laser
diode

Connectivity
Projection keyboards connect to the computer either through Bluetooth or USB.Bluetooth dongle
technology enables the projection keyboard for point to multi-point connectivity with other
Bluetooth devices, such as PCs, PDAs and mobile phone.[8] (virtual keyboard, 2015)

The way that Bluetooth projection keyboards connect to devices depends on the specific
tablet, phone or computer.
The connection between the USB keyboard and the device is made through a USB port,
which is available on every current computer and (via an adapter) other devices.
With 78 keys and a full size QWERTY layout the laser virtual keyboard
approaches typing speeds of a standard keyboard in a size no larger than
a matchbook. (projected keyboard, 2015)

History
Inventor: Canesta and VKB. it was in invented in 2002 (the future of
inputting has arrived, 2015). (the future of inputting has arrived, 2015)Was
developed in San Jose USA (inventions: the virtual keyboard, 2015)The
projection keyboard is significant because it reduced the size of
computers or devices, for portability, and it increases comfort ability when
typing on phones or palm pilots. It also sparked the ides for virtual mice
and virtual pianos. The projection keyboard has showed us that the ability
to make objects extremely portable is possible laser projectional ideas.
Not only is it making great strides in the computer world, yet it is also
helping people in the music industry (virtual keyboard, 2015)

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