CAPTURING OBJECTS IN EDITABLE FORMAT USING GESTURES

• US 20150177944A1
• Filed: 09/25/2012
• Published: 06/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Petrov, Nikolay Andreevich
• Granted Patent: US 10,331,330 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: G06F 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/36 Matching; Classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/28 Recognition of hand or arm movements, e.g. recognition of deaf sign language static hand signs G06V40/113

Abstract

Embodiments of methods, systems, and storage medium associated with capturing, with a user device, at least a portion of an object based on a user gesture indicating a command are disclosed herein. In one instance, the method may include identifying a gesture associated with an object of interest external to the user device; capturing an image of at least a portion of the object of interest based on a result of the identifying the gesture; and providing the portion of the object in an editable format based on the image. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Claims

1. At least one computing device-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a computing device, cause the computing device to:

identify a gesture associated with an object of interest external to the computing device, the geseture indicating a selection of at least a portion of the object of interest and a command to perform an operation on the selected portion of the object of interest;

based on a result of identifying the gesture, capture an image of at leaast a portion of the object of interest selected by the identified gesture; and

perform the indicated operation on the captured image of the portion of the object, according to the command indicated by the identified gesture.

2. The computing device-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the operation includes a provision of the selected portion of the object in an editable format wherein the instructions, in response to execution by the computing device, further cause the computing device to process the image to provide the portion of the object of interest in the editable format according to the command indicated by the identified gesture.

3. The computing device-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, in response to execution by the computing device, furtheer cause the computing device to capture one or more properties associated with the portion of the object of interest, according to the command indicated by the identified gesture.

4. The computing device-readable storage medium of claim 3, wherein the one or more properties are selected from at least one of dynamic characteristics associated with the portion of the object of interest or static parameters associated with the portion of the object of interest.

5. The computing device-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, in response to execution by the computing device, further cause the computing device to:

receive a command indicating a mode of operation of the computing device; and

change the mode of operation in accordance with the command.

6. the computing device-readable storage medium of claim 5, whewerein the command is selected from at least one of a gesture command or a voice command.

7. The computing device-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the mode of operation includes at least one of a text mode or an image mode.

8. The computing device-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the object is associated with at least one of a real surface or a virtual surface.

9. The computing device-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions, in response to execution by the computing device, further cause the computing device to copy the selected portion of the object of interest to a clipboard, according to the command.

10. The computing device-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the copied portion of the object of interest in rendered for display on the computing device.

13. The computing device-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the operation associated with the portion of the object of interest includes at least one of:

editing the portion of the object of interest or incorporating the portion of the object of interest into a document.

14. The computing device-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the portion of the object of interest is a selected one of text or image.

11. (canceled)

12. (canceled)

15. A computing device comprising:

a processor; and

an object capture application operated by the processor to;

identify a gesture indicating a selection of at least a portion of an object of interest external to the computing device and a command associated with the object of interest and indicating an operation to be performed on the selected portion of the object of interest;

based on a result of identifying the gesture, capture an image of at least a portion of the object of interest according to the selection; and

perform the indicated operation on the captured image of the portion of the object.

16. the computing device of claim 15, wherein the object capture application is further configured to cause the computing device to process the image to provide the portion of the object of interest in an editable format or cause another computing device to process the image to provide the portion of the object of interest in the editable format.

17. The computing device of claim 15, wherein the object capture application is further configured to capture, in response to a request, one or more properties associated with the portion of the object of interest.

18. The computing device of claim 17, wherein the one or more properties are selected from at least one of dynamic characteristics associated with the portion of the object of interest or static parameters associated with the portion of the object of interest.

19. the computing device of claim 18, wherein the dynamic characteristics include one or more parameters associated with a motion of the portion of the object, and wherein the static parameters include at least one of size, color, or language associated with the portion of the object.

20. (canceled)

21. A computer-implemented method comprising:

identifying by a computing device, a gesture associated with an object of interest external to the computing device, the gesture indicating a selection of at least a portion of the object of interest and a command to perform an operation on the selected portion of the object of interest;

selecting, by the computing device, a portion of the object of interest according to the identified gesture;

capturing, by the computing device, an image of the selected portion of the object of interest; and

performing, by the computing device, the indicated operation on the portion of the object according to the command indicated by the gesture.

22. The computer-implemented method of claim 21, wherein the editable format includes a digital form of representation of the portion of the object.

23. The computer-implemented method of claim 21, further comprising capturing, by the computing device, one or more properties associated with the portion of the object of interest.

24. The computer-implemented method of claim 21, wherein identifying a gesture associated with an object of interest external to the computing device includes:

identifying, by the computing device, the gesture based on a library of gestures.

25. The computer-implemented method of claim 24, whrein the library of gestures is stored in a data store and is accessible by the computing device.

26. the computer-implemented method of claim 21, wherein the portion of the object of interest is a selected one of text or image.