Virtual Keyboard

VIRTUAL KEYBOARD

A SEMINAR REPORT

Submitted by

MOHAMMED AJMAL RAHMAN

in partial fulfillment for the award of the degree

of

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY

in

COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE &TECHNOLOGY,

KOCHI-682022

NOVEMBER 2008

DIVISION OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE &

TECHNOLOGY, KOCHI-682022

CERTIFICATE

Certified that this is a bonafide record of the seminar entitled

“VIRTUAL KEYBOARD”

done by the following student

MOHAMMED AJMAL RAHMAN

of the VIIth semester, Computer Science and Engineering in the year 2008 in

partial fulfillment of the requirements of the award of Degree of Bachelor of

Technology in Computer Science and Engineering of Cochin University of Science

and Technology.

Ms. Remya Mol

Dr. David Peter S

Seminar Guide

Head of the Department

Date:19/09/2008

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I thank my seminar guide Ms Remya Mol, Lecturer, CUSAT, for her proper

guidance, and valuable suggestions. I am indebted to Mr. David Peter, the HOD,

Computer Science division & other faculty members for giving me an opportunity

to learn and do this seminar. If not for the above mentioned people my seminar

would never have been completed successfully. I once again extend my sincere

thanks to all of them.

MOHAMMED AJMAL RAHMAN

ABSTRACT

Computing is now not limited to desktops and laptops, it has found

its way into mobile devices like palm tops and even cell phones. But what

has not changed for the last 50 or so odd years is the input device, the good

old QWERTY keyboard. Virtual Keyboard uses sensor technology and

artificial intelligence to let users work on any surface as if it were a keyboard.

Virtual Devices have developed a flashlight-size gadget that projects an

image of a keyboard on any surface and let’s people input data by typing on

the image. The Virtual Keyboard uses light to project a full-sized...