Methods and apparatus recognition of start and/or stop portions of a gesture using relative coordinate system boundaries
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1. An apparatus capable of interacting with at least one controllable device based upon a pose of at least a portion of a human body, the apparatus comprising:
- one or more sensors that are sized for wearing on the human body, each of the one or more sensors emitting sensor data and being packaged in an integrated mechanical assembly;
anda detection unit that operates upon the sensor data to determine the pose of at least the portion of the human body and is capable of interacting with the at least one controllable device, the detection unit including;
a memory that stores at least one or more characteristics of human anatomy that are associated with the human body using at least a partial skeletal rendering of a human; and
a detection processor, automatically operating under software control, that inputs, aggregates and fuses the sensor data from each of the one or more sensors using the at least one or more characteristics of human anatomy stored in the memory to determine the pose of at least the portion of the human body based upon a locality of said one or more sensors, wherein the detection processor begins to input, aggregate and fuse the sensor data for gesture recognition upon certain sensor data indicating that the at least one of the one or more sensors within the integrated mechanical assembly have intersected into a relative coordinate system boundary to thereby initiate a gesture start signal and wherein the detection processor ceases to input the sensor data for gesture recognition upon receipt of a gesture stop signal.
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Described are apparatus and methods for reconstructing a gesture by aggregating various data from various sensors, including data for recognition of start and/or stop portions of the gesture using a detection of an intersection with a relative coordinate system boundary.
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1. An apparatus capable of interacting with at least one controllable device based upon a pose of at least a portion of a human body, the apparatus comprising:
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one or more sensors that are sized for wearing on the human body, each of the one or more sensors emitting sensor data and being packaged in an integrated mechanical assembly; and a detection unit that operates upon the sensor data to determine the pose of at least the portion of the human body and is capable of interacting with the at least one controllable device, the detection unit including; a memory that stores at least one or more characteristics of human anatomy that are associated with the human body using at least a partial skeletal rendering of a human; and a detection processor, automatically operating under software control, that inputs, aggregates and fuses the sensor data from each of the one or more sensors using the at least one or more characteristics of human anatomy stored in the memory to determine the pose of at least the portion of the human body based upon a locality of said one or more sensors, wherein the detection processor begins to input, aggregate and fuse the sensor data for gesture recognition upon certain sensor data indicating that the at least one of the one or more sensors within the integrated mechanical assembly have intersected into a relative coordinate system boundary to thereby initiate a gesture start signal and wherein the detection processor ceases to input the sensor data for gesture recognition upon receipt of a gesture stop signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. An method for interacting with at least one controllable device based upon a pose of at least a portion of a human body, the method comprising:
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sensing, using one or more sensors that are sized for wearing on the human body, sensor data from each of the one or more sensors, wherein the one or more sensors are packaged in an integrated mechanical assembly; and determining the pose of at least the portion of the human body based upon the sensor data, under processor and software control, the step of determining operating to; associate at least one or more characteristics of human anatomy with the human body using at least a partial skeletal rendering of a human; and automatically determine, under the processor and software control the pose of at least the portion of the human body based upon a locality of said one or more sensors and the input from the auxiliary sensor, the step of automatically determining including inputting, aggregating and fusing the sensor data from each of the one or more sensors using the at least one or more characteristics of human anatomy to determine the pose, wherein the step of automatically determining begins to input, aggregate and fuse the sensor data for gesture recognition upon certain sensor data indicating that the at least one of the one or more sensors within the integrated mechanical assembly have intersected into a relative coordinate system boundary to thereby initiate a gesture start signal and wherein the detection processor ceases to input the sensor data for gesture recognition upon receipt of a gesture stop signal. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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