Japanese public broadcaster – «NHK» – opened the point at which everyone can experience a new tactile technology that can “see” the image to the touch, using a special drive that is connected to the index finger. Item is located in the premises of the research laboratory in the Tokyo area.
Japanese public broadcaster – the company «NHK» – is working on a new technology that allows people to watch TV … fingers.
According to a correspondent Mediasat, this technology will display on 3D-transmitted television objects so that the viewer will be able to feel blocked. The viewer will be enough to put your index finger in the device provided with a special drive to be able to palpate the transmitted image by examining all its roughness, angles and protrusions.
The broadcaster has demonstrated the technology in the open days at its research center near Tokyo.
Addition to the “tactile” TV, NHK experts also engaged in the development of new interactive TV platform. It should allow the audience, armed with smartphones and tablets, to make comments about going live TV programs, and these comments should appear in social networks. One of the demonstrations allow viewers to select individual parts of the projected image on the screen, put the tags and write comments on them. Others allow you to draw and upload images during children’s programs.
company says it hopes to launch in Japan, some of these services later this year.
addition, NHK also slowly progressing in the direction of the format «Super Hi-Vision», also known as 8K resolution 7680 x 4320 pixels. TV manufacturers already produce models that support the standard 4K and 8K, named for the number of thousands of pixels horizontally. However, for the sake of the truth to say that today is still very little content created in these formats.
planning to start broadcasting in 2020 in 8K throughout Japan, NHK is now working hard to create a camera that would be able to capture video at this resolution and thus were easy to use. The first samples of these cameras were very cumbersome, and more like a small cannon. Today, however, already have samples of the size of a conventional television camera. However, they take off in the permit, which is up slightly to a full 8K.
Another problem is the issue of storage of information recorded by the camera. Requires a lot of places, because it records at a speed of 72 Gbps. To support the latest model of this camera NHK has developed a mini-computer equipped with a flash memory capacity of 1.5 terabytes. However, this volume is enough to record about 50 minutes of video.
Everything in the world of technology from year to year is becoming smaller and smaller. This process is as inevitable as death and paying taxes. However, we still take your breath away when we see 8K-compact camera, designed by specialists NHK together with partners from the company Astrodesign. Of course, it’s a little too big compared to your smartphone, but in comparison with the usual Ultra HD movie cameras, it looks like little ones.
Trick that allowed the Japanese so substantially reduce the size of the camera is to use a 33-megapixel sensor measuring less than one inch. This will fit all of the components in the body size of about four inches. Furthermore, the camera lens used in small, lightweight, which generally considerably reduces the production costs of the product to 8K, and should ultimately lead to the new format quickly catch on the masses.
Text adapted Boris Skuratovskiy
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