Interactive Display System With Collaborative Gesture Detection

• US 20100207874A1
• Filed: 10/30/2008
• Published: 08/19/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Nelson, Chang Liang An, Yuxin, Liu
• Granted Patent: US 9,292,092 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/28 Recognition of hand or arm movements, e.g. recognition of deaf sign language static hand signs G06V40/113
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 27/00 Combined visual and audible advertising or displaying, e.g. for public address

Abstract

An interactive content delivery system (10) includes means for displaying visual content (20) to a group of individuals (14), means for detecting a collective gesture (12) of the group, and a control system (26), coupled to the means for displaying visual content (20) and the means for detecting a collective gesture (12). The control system (26) is configured to modify the content in response to the collective gesture.

Claims

1. An interactive content delivery system (10), comprising:

a display device (20), suitable for displaying content to a group (14) of individuals;

a collective gesture detection device (12), configured to detect and analyze a collective gesture of the group (14); and

a control system (26), coupled to the display device (20) and the group gesture detection device (12), configured to modify the content in response to the collective gesture.

2. An interactive content delivery system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the display device (20) is a video display device.

3. An interactive content delivery system in accordance with claim 2, further comprising an audio broadcast device (22), synchronized with the video display device (20).

4. An interactive content delivery system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the collective gesture detection device (12) comprises:

an imaging device (12); and

an image analysis computer system (18) coupled to the imaging device, configured to analyze collective gestures.

5. An interactive content delivery system in accordance with claim 4, wherein the image analysis computer system (18) is configured to compute a score indicating a relative quality of the collective gestures.

6. An interactive content delivery system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the control system (26) is interconnected to a remote computer system (34) via a communications network (32), whereby the remote computer system can provide input to the control system and receive feedback therefrom.

7. An interactive content delivery system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the content of the display (20) includes a prompt for a common group gesture.

8. An interactive content delivery system in accordance with claim 7, wherein the common group gesture comprises a selecting action for alternative display content.

9. An interactive content delivery system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the content of the display (20) includes a prompt requesting competing common group gestures from at least two subgroups of the group (14).

10. An interactive content delivery system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the modified content includes a characterization of the group gesture.