WINK DETECTING CAMERA
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Abstract
A system and method is disclosed for enabling user friendly interaction with a camera system. Specifically, the inventive system and method has several aspects to improve the interaction with a camera system, including voice recognition, gaze tracking, touch sensitive inputs and others. The voice recognition unit is operable for, among other things, receiving multiple different voice commands, recognizing the vocal commands, associating the different voice commands to one camera command and controlling at least some aspect of the digital camera operation in response to these voice commands. The gaze tracking unit is operable for, among other things, determining the location on the viewfinder image that the user is gazing upon. One aspect of the touch sensitive inputs provides that the touch sensitive pad is mouse-like and is operable for, among other things, receiving user touch inputs to control at least some aspect of the camera operation. Another aspect of the disclosed invention provides for gesture recognition to be used to interface with and control the camera system.
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28 Claims
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21. A camera system comprising:
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a) an image sensor; b) an electronic display operable as a viewfinder; c) a memory; d) a controller coupled to the image sensor, electronic display and memory, and being configured to; (i) process image data generated by the image sensor and display a current scene viewed by the image sensor on the electronic display; (ii) detect a user operating the electronic display as a viewfinder; (iii) determine when the user'"'"'s eye has winked by optically receiving and electronically recognizing that the user'"'"'s eye has closed and reopened; (iv) generate a signal in response to determining that the user'"'"'s eye has winked; and (v) use the signal to control the camera to capture an image from the image sensor and store the captured image in memory. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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