SYSTEM OF CONTROLLING DEVICE IN RESPONSE TO GESTURE

• US 20100219934A1
• Filed: 02/25/2010
• Published: 09/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Shigeyuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,183,977 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.100
• 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

Abstract

A control system includes: an input unit through which a signal for a gesture and a background of the gesture is input; a gesture recognition unit which recognizes the gesture on the basis of the input signal; an attribute recognition unit which recognizes an attribute of a background target of the recognized gesture on the basis of the input signal; and a command transmitting unit which generates a control command on the basis of a combination of the recognized gesture and the background target attribute and transmits the control command to a device.

Claims

1. A control system comprising:

an input unit through which a signal for a gesture and a background of the gesture is input;

a gesture recognition unit which recognizes the gesture on the basis of the input signal;

an attribute recognition unit which recognizes an attribute of a background target of the recognized gesture on the basis of the input signal; and

a command transmitting unit which generates a control command on the basis of a combination of the recognized gesture and the background target attribute and transmits the control command to a device.

2. The control system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storing unit which stores setting information indicating that a certain control is to be performed in the case that a certain gesture and a certain background target attribute are recognized; and

an output control unit which outputs, in the case that a usage time of a specific room or a device which is provided in the room is designated, a usage restricted object which is an object for the usage time and a background target for controlling the device in the specific room, from an output device;

wherein the input unit includes a gesture sensor which detects the gesture and a camera which photographs a background of the gesture;

the input signal in the gesture recognition unit is a signal indicating the detected gesture;

the input signal in the attribute recognition unit is a background image, which is photographed by the camera, of a gesture on an output medium to which the usage restricted object and the background target are output;

the attribute recognition unit analyzes the background image and recognizes the usage restricted object on the output medium and the background target attribute of the gesture; and

the command transmitting unit transmits the control command to the device which is provided in the specific room only in the case that the usage time indicated by the recognized usage restricted object is specified and current date and time belongs to the usage time, and the control command is a command for performing, for the device, a control specified from the setting information on the basis of the combination of the recognized gesture and the background target attribute.

3. The control system according to claim 1, wherein the command transmitting unit generates and transmits the command control for performing an output having the background target of the gesture in an output device.

4. The control system according to claim 1, further comprising a background target attribute notification unit which notifies a user of the gesture background target among objects which exist in a space in which the user exists.

5. The control system according to claim 4, wherein the background target attribute notification unit illuminates light to the gesture background target to notify the user of the gesture background target in the case that the user exists at a predetermined distance from the target, and stops the light illuminating to the gesture background target in the case that the user moves to a place removed from the target by a predetermined distance.

6. The control system according to claim 1, wherein the command transmitting unit specifies a schedule, and a process performed by the command transmitting unit is varied according to a relation between the specified schedule and the current date and time.

7. A control apparatus comprising:

a gesture recognition unit which recognizes a gesture;

an attribute recognition unit which recognizes an attribute of a background target of the recognized gesture; and

a command transmitting unit which generates a control command on the basis of a combination of the recognized gesture and the background target attribute and transmits the control command to a device.

8. A computer program for performing in a computer the following steps comprising:

recognizing a gesture;

recognizing an attribute of a background target of the recognized gesture; and

generating a control command on the basis of a combination of the recognized gesture and the background target attribute and transmitting the control command.