Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Player-actuated control structure
Patent
1995-11-07
1998-09-08
Harrison, Jessica
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Player-actuated control structure
250221, 345156, A03F 922, G01V 904
Patent
active
058038108
ABSTRACT:
A controller provides control signals to a computer based upon the movement of a user. The controller has an optical detector for detecting and monitoring the movement of a user, particularly movement of selected body parts, and circuitry for outputting a control signal to the computer in accordance with detected movement. A vector indicative of detected movement is generated on a frame-to-frame basis using only a few representative edge pixels of the body parts. Control signals for the direction and the velocity of the movement are determined from the vector and move a graphical user interface on a display accordingly.
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Brozsek Bela Laszlo
Norton John Mark
Harrison Jessica
Perception Systems, Inc.
Schaaf James
Smith Oppenheimer Poms
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