GUIDE MODE FOR GESTURE SPACES

• US 20130007616A1
• Filed: 03/12/2012
• Published: 01/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bell, Denise A., Grigsby, Travis M., Jenkins, Jana H.
• Application Number:
  US13/417,638
• Publication Number:
  US 20130007616A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/709
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• 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 gesture system executes actions or commands based on gesture inputs. The system includes a detection subsystem and a gesture processing device. The detection subsystem monitor a plurality of gesture spheres, including a participant gesture sphere and a guide gesture sphere. The participant gesture sphere corresponds to a first user and a participant domain on a display device. The guide gesture sphere corresponds to a second user. The gesture processing device implements a guide mode to execute an action within the participant domain based on a gesture from the guide gesture sphere.

Claims

1. A method for operating a gesture system, the method comprising:

monitoring a participant gesture sphere and a guide gesture sphere, wherein the participant gesture sphere corresponds to a participant domain on a display device;

recognizing a gesture from the guide gesture sphere;

identifying an action corresponding to the gesture from the guide gesture sphere;

determining if the gesture system is operating in a guide mode; and

executing the action corresponding to the gesture from the guide gesture sphere within the participant domain in response to a determination that the gesture system is operating in the guide mode.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

recognizing a gesture from the participant gesture sphere;

identifying an action corresponding to the gesture from the participant gesture sphere; and

executing the action corresponding to the gesture from the participant gesture sphere within the participant domain while the gesture system is operating in the guide mode.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising disallowing access from the participant gesture sphere to the guide domain while the gesture system is operating in the guide mode.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein monitoring the guide gesture sphere and the participant gesture sphere further comprises monitoring the guide gesture sphere and the participant gesture sphere using images from a single detector.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein monitoring the guide gesture sphere and the participant gesture sphere further comprises:

monitoring the participant gesture sphere using images from a first detector; and

monitoring the guide gesture sphere using images from a second detector.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first detector is coupled to a first computer device at a first location, and the second detector is coupled to a second computer device at a second location, and the first and second computer devices are coupled together to facilitate network communications between the first and second computer devices.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing data on an electronic data memory device for use with the gesture system, wherein the stored data comprises:

parameters for configuration of the gesture system; and

instructions for processing gesture inputs from the participant gesture sphere and the guide gesture sphere.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the instructions for processing the gesture inputs comprise:

instructions for identifying conflicting gesture inputs from the participant gesture sphere and the guide gesture sphere; and

instructions for processing the conflicting gesture inputs according to a priority rule.