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VIDEO BASED APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE CURSOR

  • US 20090284469A1
  • Filed: 06/13/2008
  • Published: 11/19/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2008
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An apparatus for controlling a cursor, comprising:

  • an image capturing unit, for receiving a hand image of a user; and

    an image processing unit, coupled to the image capturing unit, for extracting features of the hand image, and determining whether the hand image presents a “

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    shaped hand gesture or not, and if yes, three feature points of the “

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    shaped hand gesture are respectively corresponding to coordinates of a cursor, a mouse left button, and a mouse right button,wherein the three feature points of the “

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    shaped hand gesture comprises a first finger image, a second finger image, and a valley point of a “

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    shape formed there-between, the image processing unit controls the cursor, the mouse left button, and the mouse right button according to the extracted three feature points of the “

    V”

    shaped hand gesture, wherein the first finger image is corresponding to the mouse left button, the second finger image is corresponding to the mouse right button, a position variation of the valley part of the “

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    shape formed by the first finger image and the second finger image is corresponding to a position of the cursor.

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