Television – Special applications – Observation of or from a specific location
Reexamination Certificate
2003-12-17
2010-10-26
Banks Harold, Marsha D (Department: 2621)
Television
Special applications
Observation of or from a specific location
C348S144000, C348S152000, C348S159000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07821531
ABSTRACT:
To provide an interface apparatus capable of achieving noncontact and unrestricted arm pointing actions of multiple users in an indoor space, and facilitating the recognition of all typical arm pointing actions in standing, sitting, and lying postures and the operation of indoor units in the indoor space by the arm pointing actions. The interface apparatus includes: image processing means for picking up images of the interior of an indoor space5with a plurality of stereo cameras1-1to1-n, and producing a distance image based on the picked-up images within the visual field on a camera-by-camera basis and the coordinate system of the indoor space5; means for extracting the posture and arm pointing of a user4from the distance information from the stereo cameras1-1to1-n; and means for determining, when the arm pointing has been identified, whether the arm pointing is an intended signal, from the direction pointed by the arm and the motion of the arm.
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Sakaue Katsuhiko
Yoda Ikushi
Anyikire Chikaodili E
Banks Harold Marsha D
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Oblon, Spivak McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
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