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Future Smart UI/UX Insights from Patents: Implementing Minority Report
Patents can provide insights regarding the state of the art and technical details of IoT (Internet of Things)
innovation. Thus, patents information combined with future technology development trends can provide insight
regarding the future implement of a specific technology. Followings illustrate patents that indicate the potential
future implementations of smart UI (user interface)/UX (user experience) of smartphones and wearable devices.
Total Recall 2012 showed a mobile phone that is implemented in person’s palms. A possible implementation could
be a skin like thin glove with embedded electronics with mobile phone functionality. However, this type of
implementation is too remote to be viable exploiting current state of the art technology in near future.

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US 20150253862 (GLASS TYPE MOBILE TERMINAL; LG) illustrates a practical possibility of implementation
of the mobile phone UI in person’s palms exploiting a head mounted wearable mobile phone. The wearable mobile
phone includes a transparent display and a control module configured to display an execution screen of a currently
executed application in a transparent display area corresponding to the palm of one hand of a user, upon
recognition of user's gaze at the user's hand. While the application execution screen is displayed in the transparent
display area corresponding to the user's palm, the control module recognizes user's motion of touching the specific
finger with a finger of the other hand while the application execution screen is displayed in the transparent display
area corresponding to the user's palm.

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US20150241968 (Method for Processing Information and Electronic Device; Lenovo) illustrates another practical
possibility of implementation of the mobile phone UI in person’s palms exploiting wearable mobile phone with the
projector of UI onto the palms. To project the graphical interaction interface onto the operation portion of the
palms through the projection lens is to project the graphical interaction interface onto a hand of the user through
the projection lens. Following figure illustrates that the electronic device fixed to an arm projects the graphical
interaction interface onto a hand on the arm through the projection lens.

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Minority Report showed a touch screen UI that is implemented in the air.
US20130346168 (Wearable augmented reality eyeglass communication device including mobile phone and mobile
computing via virtual touch screen gesture control and neuron command) illustrates a practical possibility of
implementation of the touch screen UI that is implemented in the air exploiting a head mounted wearable
augmented reality eyeglass communication device. The user may interact with the data and/or objects projected by
the projector such as the virtual touch screen. A camera may capture images or video of user body parts in relation

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to the projected objects and recognize user commands provided via virtual control components. Alternatively,
motions of user fingers or hands may be detected by the sensors and interpreted by the processor.

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