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User-input apparatus, method and program for user-input

  • US 10,444,831 B2
  • Filed: 12/06/2016
  • Issued: 10/15/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A user-input apparatus for head gesture based control comprising:

  • a camera for recording a head of a user;

    a database for defining a plurality of gestures of the head of the user and for relating at least some of the defined gestures to a corresponding user command;

    a detector for detecting one of the gestures defined in the database in the recording of the camera;

    a controller for identifying a user command in the database related to the detected gesture and for giving out the user command related to the detected gesture;

    a configurator for configuring settings of the user-input apparatuswherein one of the defined gestures of the head is a switching gesture and one of the user commands is a switching command related to the switching gesture, wherein, when the switching command is given out from the controller, the user-input apparatus switches between a use mode for the head gesture based control and a settings mode for configuring the user-input apparatus in the configurator or changes the settings of the user-input apparatus,wherein the setting mode is a calibration mode, wherein the user-input apparatus is switched from the use mode into the calibration mode by the switching gesture for calibration of the head gestures of the user-input apparatus, or the calibration of the head gestures of the user-input apparatus are changed, andwherein the configurator is configured to perform the calibration in the calibration mode without the need of other input operations of the user than gestures of the head of the user.

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