Among the most anticipated technology products of 2022, there is undoubtedly also the Google Pixel Watch, the first smartwatch of the Mountain View giant that could be launched during the second quarter.
In the past few hours, some interesting details have emerged relating to a patent application filed by Google in 2020 at the World Intellectual Property Office and which concerns a technology that could also find application in the Google Pixel Watch, as well as in the other wearable devices of the company, such as the Google Pixel Buds series earphones.
Google Pixel Watch could boast a skin interface
According to what emerges from the documentation relating to the patent application, the Mountain View giant would have studied a so-called “skin interface” for managing devices through the skin of users.
At present, wearable devices are managed through voice commands (thanks to an integrated microphone) and touch input but the Google team would have decided to focus on a possible further solution: we are referring to a series of gestures on the skin carried out near the device and that creates a mechanical wave that is perceived by the wearable sensors and transformed into commands.
For example, users could scroll vertically or sideways or tap once or twice, quickly or prolonged, and the system should be able to match action to each type of gesture, obviously, provided that the gesture is performed in proximity. of the device.
And so with Google Pixel Watch, the gestures could be performed on the wrist, on the back of the hand, or on the forearm while with Google Pixel Buds they could be performed in the area of the temple or by touching the earlobe.
Using machine learning technology, the wearable device may be able to recognize movements that are not meant to be gestures and thus users will be able to nod, chew, scratch and speak without the risk of this being detected as an input gesture.
It remains to be seen if and when this technology will be implemented by Google in products intended for marketing.