![]() ![]() Samsung has filed in Europe to trademark a technology called "Eye Scroll" and another named "Eye Pause." Reports of an eye-control innovation make sense. While he declined to talk about software upgrades, he said hardware upgrades will be significant. The Times interviewed Kevin Packingham, Samsung's chief product officer. ![]() The Korean company has for all practical purposes announced the Galaxy S IV will be unveiled at a New York City event on March 14. Quoting an unnamed Samsung employee who has used the phone, the Times said the Samsung Galaxy S IV, the next generation in its popular Galaxy S line, will be more heavily geared toward new software than a physical reboot of the Android-based device. "Eye scrolling" will do things like scroll down a page of text when the user's eyes have reached the bottom of the screen, according to a New York Times report. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.Samsung's next Galaxy smartphone might be controlled by nothing more than the user's eyes, according to a new report in advance of its March 14 unveiling. Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account What do you think about the new Galaxy phone’s features? Let us know in the comments. “The tricks about tracking your eyes and waving at the screen, I don’t think anybody’s really asking for that stuff.” “It feels very gimmicky,” he said of the hands-free features. Nilay Patel, managing editor of tech blog The Verge, told CNN that he suspects the S IV’s camera upgrades will be more significant. The question, of course, is whether users, even those excited about the phone and its new hardware and software, will actually use the gesture controls. “Anything that we can do that’s not dependent on hardware like infrared, we’ll definitely bring to all the flagship devices,” he said. Samsung vice president Nick DiCarlo told PC Magazine that they’ll be getting some of the IV’s software upgrades. “I found this capability worked better than I thought it might, engaging quickly whenever I stared at the screen.”Īnd there’s good news for owners of the Galaxy S III. “While the ability to scroll by tilting a phone is a feature we’ve seen on some earlier Android models, its automated activation is new,” wrote Gikas of Consumer Reports. While you’re looking at the screen, you can tilt the phone backward or forward to scroll up and down. “When (you’re) watching a video and suddenly someone calls you and you get distracted, the video automatically stops without pressing a thing,” Lee Young Hee, executive vice president at Samsung Mobile, said at Thursday’s event. Now, Smart Pause also will pause a video if you look away. It’s designed to tell when you’re actually looking at your screen, keeping its sleep mode from kicking in when you are and shutting down to save battery life when you’re not. It was rumored that the new phone would read eye movements, but instead it’s the user’s head that triggers this feature. Smart Pause is an advance on a feature already available on the Galaxy S III. Again, all of these movements are tracked by the phone’s front-facing camera. Simply swipe a finger through the air sideways and you can toggle from screen to screen, or up and down to scroll through something you’re reading.Īir gestures also can be used to answer a phone call. Users don’t even have to be holding their phone to use this. Users of the Samsung Galaxy IV will be able to scroll by tilting the phone back and forth. ![]()
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