Head Pose Assessment Methods and Systems
First Claim
1. An apparatus for use with at least one display device and at least one image capturing device, the apparatus comprising:
- display logic configurable to output at least one signal suitable for causing a display device to display at least two different selectable regions;
interface logic configurable to receive image data from an image capturing device; and
pose estimation logic operatively coupled to said display logic and said interface logic and configured to determine a first head pose based on a first image and at least a second head pose based on a second image temporally subsequent to said first image, and automatically operatively switch an operative user input focus between said at least two selectable regions based on at least one difference between said first head pose and at least said second head pose.
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Abstract
Improvements are provided to effectively assess a user'"'"'s face and head pose such that a computer or like device can track the user'"'"'s attention towards a display device(s). Then the region of the display or graphical user interface that the user is turned towards can be automatically selected without requiring the user to provide further inputs. A frontal face detector is applied to detect the user'"'"'s frontal face and then key facial points such as left/right eye center, left/right mouth corner, nose tip, etc., are detected by component detectors. The system then tracks the user'"'"'s head by an image tracker and determines yaw, tilt and roll angle and other pose information of the user'"'"'s head through a coarse to fine process according to key facial points and/or confidence outputs by pose estimator.
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20 Claims
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1. An apparatus for use with at least one display device and at least one image capturing device, the apparatus comprising:
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display logic configurable to output at least one signal suitable for causing a display device to display at least two different selectable regions; interface logic configurable to receive image data from an image capturing device; and pose estimation logic operatively coupled to said display logic and said interface logic and configured to determine a first head pose based on a first image and at least a second head pose based on a second image temporally subsequent to said first image, and automatically operatively switch an operative user input focus between said at least two selectable regions based on at least one difference between said first head pose and at least said second head pose. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system comprising:
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at least one display device; at least one image capturing device; and a computing device operatively coupled to said display device and said image capturing device and having; display logic configured to output at least one signal suitable for causing a display device to display at least two different selectable regions, interface logic configured to receive image data from an image capturing device, and pose estimation logic configured to determine a first head pose based on a first image and at least a second head pose based on a second image temporally subsequent to said first image, and automatically operatively switch an operative user input focus between said at least two selectable regions based on at least one difference between said first head pose and at least said second head pose. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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