According to the report, many people use their phones so much they have almost become an extension of their hands, so Google's latest patent was only a matter of time.
It details a headset that beams an interactive virtual keyboard directly onto a person's palm.
A camera in the headset then tracks the movement of the fingers to know which keys are being pressed before feeding this information to an app, website or other tool.
The patent(picture) was filed in June 2012 and awarded earlier last month. It details a headset that projects a virtual keyboard onto a person's skin and this can be beamed onto their hands, their arm or onto another person. A camera then tracks the fingers to see which keys are being pressed.
The patent drawings resemble Google's much-maligned Glass headset and the future could be added to a future version of the wearable devices, the patent explained: 'The present application discloses systems and methods for a virtual input device.
'In one example, the virtual input device includes a projector and a camera. The projector projects a pattern onto a surface(and) the camera captures images that can be interpreted by a processor to determine actions.
' The projector may be mounted on an arm of a pair of eyeglasses and the camera may be mounted on an opposite arm of the eyeglasses', the patent explained.
In another example, the camera could detect when the hand is moving and interpret and send these movements to the headset or connected phone to record gestures, for example.
In addition to a virtual keyboard,people could watch videos on the palm of their hand rather than having to hold a device in front of them.
The patent is similar to one Samsung filed in 2013, and awarded in march last year.
In the Korean firm's filing, a person wearing a camera - on a Google Glass style device dubbed Galaxy Glass would be able to look down at their hands, which would be mapped using a virtual keyboard.
For example, numbers could be assigned to a forefinger, while symbols could be assigned to a middle finger.
Alternatively, letters could be plotted at various points across the fingers and palm from top to bottom.
Users would then use their thumb to 'press' the various keys on both hands.
The camera would capture the movement of the thumb, or identify the force pressed onto each finger to establish which key had been pressed and type the message accordingly.
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