GESTURE BASED COMMANDS
First Claim
1. A method for determining a user hand gesture, comprising:
- determining if a hand is within a detectable region of a field of view of a detection surface coupled to a computing device;
detecting a sequence of one or more hand features associated with the hand;
detecting a direction of movement of the hand; and
determining the user hand gesture based on the detected sequence of one or more hand features and the direction of the movement of the hand.
3 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
Techniques described herein enable a computing device to detect a user hand gesture in near field using less expensive hardware by capturing enough information in coarse resolution. Furthermore, techniques described herein detect an object, such as a hand by characterizing the object without fully reconstructing the object. In one embodiment, embodiments of the invention performed by the computing device detect the number of unfurled fingers passing through the detectable region of the field of view of the detection surface of a computing device and the direction of the movement of the user'"'"'s hand. The computing device may determine a user command in response to detecting the user gesture and provide feedback to the user.
-
Citations
35 Claims
-
1. A method for determining a user hand gesture, comprising:
-
determining if a hand is within a detectable region of a field of view of a detection surface coupled to a computing device; detecting a sequence of one or more hand features associated with the hand; detecting a direction of movement of the hand; and determining the user hand gesture based on the detected sequence of one or more hand features and the direction of the movement of the hand. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
-
-
15. A computing device for detecting a user hand gesture, comprising:
-
a plurality of sensors configured to receive light signals; a processor configured to; determine if a hand is within a detectable region of a field of view of a detection surface coupled to the computing device; detect a sequence of one or more hand features associated with the hand; detect a direction of movement of the hand; and determine the user hand gesture based on the detected sequence of one or more hand features and the direction of the movement of the hand. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
-
-
29. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprises instructions executable by a processor, the instructions comprising instructions to:
-
determine if a hand is within a detectable region of a field of view of a detection surface coupled to a computing device; detect a sequence of one or more hand features associated with the hand; detect a direction of movement of the hand; and determine a user hand gesture based on the detected sequence of one or more hand features and the direction of the movement of the hand. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32)
-
-
33. An apparatus, comprising:
-
means for determining if a hand is within a detectable region of a field of view of a detection surface coupled to a computing device; means for detecting a sequence of one or more hand features associated with the hand; means for detecting a direction of movement of the hand; and means for determining the user hand gesture based on the detected sequence of one or more hand features and the direction of the movement of the hand. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35)
-
Specification