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Fujitsu unveils a 3D all-in-one PC
JAPANESE COMPUTER MANUFACTURER Fujitsu has unveiled a 3D all-in-one PC at a press forum in Japan.
The Tokyo website Akihabara news reported that the PC will be launched before the end of 2010, but will be available only in Japan.
The all-in-one PC will have a 3D LCD display screen, dual 3D cameras and 'dedicated' passive 3D glasses.
As Fujitsu is opting for cheaper 3D technology with polarised glasses, we're guessing it wants to roll-out for the mass market in Asia.
Tying consumers into better but significantly more expensive active shutter technology on a mid-range all-in-one PC wouldn't work in that market.
The PC will be able to shoot 3D videos and images using the dual cameras. Fujitsu said it will also develop software so users can 3D chat using Windows Live Messenger.
Fujitsu had a demo model at the press day but wouldn't divulge any further details beyond the 3D technology. Pricing and specification information are unknown and we doubt we'll be able to get our hands on one in Blighty.
It sounds intriguing but the 3D video chat could be rather useless unless one knows someone else who is using Fujitsu's bespoke passive 3D hardware and software. µ
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I found this all in one pc anyone try it? U think i can slap on some red and blue glasses and have stuff pop out at more or is there more to it?
http://www.cybernetman.com/en/products/allinone_lcd_pc/
All in one Pc's in general is nice products and will consume the markets and replace all desktops soon enough.. i wrote about them here http://all-in-one-pc.ucoz.com/
but in case it interests other readers, I'm looking at
http://www.findthatpatent.com/Digital_cameras_using_multiple_sensors_with_multiple_lenses,6611289.html
and it seems to be describing something distinctly different - a dual colour-and-greyscale camera without a stereoscopic view. Did you give the wrong patent number for this discussion?
It also occurs to me that a possible "prior art" example for that patent is the Hubble Space Telescope, unless that is in fact what we are talking about.
It's interesting and sometimes frustrating to see through technology news reports such as the web site where you're reading this sentence, how discussions of patents are carried out between different inventors and investors, with - as the reader may individually judge - various degrees of merit, which often seems to be beside the point, and also, often, very different budgets. But for a news site to be the forum of discussion with one of the patent holders is rather a special event. I don't want to be rude, but it does seem that how these things turn out does not depend particularly on who is objectively right or wrong. And, as I say, it is interesting to watch from the sidelines.
I may also say that it seems to be somewhat late now to produce a patent concerning 3-D digital photography, with the already vigorous and, to me, somewhat puzzling spate of 3-D television product announcements and even sports broadcasts. Well, if it's ready, then it's ready.
Dear Robert,
Argus Microsystems is developer of patent 6611289.
You can check it out yourself at USPTO.
Its a fundamental patent, applies to any digital imaging system using multiple lens and sensors coming to one processor.
btw - Kodak invented the digital camera and Kodak has validated the Argus Microsystems patents.
The name 'argus' is derived from "argus panoptes", the giant with 100 eyes who sees everything.
Apparently no one has ever heard of "Argus Microsystems" before today.
Unless it's one of those websites that installs something disgusting on your computer and then demands a ransom for removing it.
Now there's a thought... could you patent a method for capturing a computer user's passwords and credit card numbers?
I suppose really the problem would be enforcing the patent... or, given how some of those people operate, maybe no problem...
Of several mythological persons named Argus (according to Wikipedia), plus Odysseus's elderly flea-bitten dog which, throughout the epic poems Iliad and Odyssey, he had left at home, presumably this refers to the fellow with all the eyes, at least four or up to a hundred, depending on who you ask.
On the other hand, the camera having been already invented, can you patent two/three/four/more cameras used at once?
the PC infringes on patents by Argus Microsystems.
See patent 6611289
http://www.linkedin.com/companies/849615
Fujitsu needs to get license from Argus Microsystems before they can offer such PC's commercially.
because anyone you chat to presumably is wearing -their- glasses, so that they can see 3D you, wearing -your- glasses.
It's gonna be like... one of those clubs, where everybody wears dark glasses.
So they need to be cool glasses.
I think William Gibson predicted this.