CES: Movea shows design for motion-enabled TV remote
Movea, the motion-control device firm, has introduced a motion-enabled TV remote control reference design with Movea's Air MotionIC firmware using InvenSense's MPU-6150.
According to the French firm, it is the smallest 6-axis MotionTracking device on a single chip with a built-in Digital-Motion-Processor (DMP).
"Some studies have shown that commanding a home entertainment system with hand gestures is much quicker than accessing programs and navigating through menus with up/down/left/right buttons," said the firm.
"Motion-enabled remotes allow for a more intuitive and easy to use way to juggle between the different streams of content, applications and games composing the new generation of Interactive TV," said Movea.
The design makes use of InvenSense's inertial MEMS sensors to support in-air pointing, advanced gesture recognition and custom gesture-based user sign-on, dramatically improving user interface navigation.
"We are pleased to be part of Movea's motion-enabled remote control reference design, implementing our MPU-6150, the world's first and only integrated 6-axis MotionTracking device," said Dan Goehl v-p sales for InvenSense.
Movea will be showing the remote control reference design at CES 2012, January 10-13, in its Las Vegas Hilton meeting suite H669.
www.movea.com