CLIENT DEVICE MOTION CONTROL VIA A VIDEO FEED

• US 20160077598A1
• Filed: 11/19/2015
• Published: 03/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lection, David B., Stevens, Mark B., Wilson, John D.
• Granted Patent: US 10,353,473 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/005 Input arrangements through a video camera
• 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: G06V 40/20 Movements or behaviour, e.g. gesture recognition recognition of facial expressions G06V40/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

An approach is described for identifying enabling motion control of a client device, such as a mobile device, via a video feed transmitted from one or more video capture devices. An associated method may include establishing, via a communications network, a communication session between a client device and one or more video capture devices. The method further may include identifying a user of the client device via the one or more video capture devices and negotiating parameters of a video feed for transmission from the one or more video capture devices to the client device via the communication session. The method further may include, upon transmission of the video feed from the one or more video capture devices to the client device, facilitating control of the client device in response to any device control gesture received from the user based upon the video feed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

establishing, via a communications network, a communication session between a client device and one or more video capture devices;

identifying a user of the client device via the one or more video capture devices;

negotiating parameters of a video feed for transmission from the one or more video capture devices to the client device via the communication session; and

upon transmission of the video feed from the one or more video capture devices to the client device, facilitating control of the client device in response to any device control gesture received from the user based upon the video feed.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

discontinuing the communication session and the video feed upon occurrence of a discontinuation event.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the discontinuation event comprises at least one of (i) receipt of a discontinuation request from the user or (ii) confirmation that the user has left a specified optical range of each of the one or more video capture devices.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the discontinuation event comprises satisfaction of one or more discontinuation rules associated with the video feed, and wherein the one or more discontinuation rules pertain to at least one of time allotment, cost allotment, a priority metric change, or a security risk change.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein establishing the communication session comprises initiating the communication session upon receiving from the user one or more initiation gestures via at least one of the one or more video capture devices.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein establishing the communication session comprises broadcasting availability of the one or more video capture devices to the client device upon determining that the user is within a specified optical range of at least one of the one or more video capture devices.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein establishing the communication session comprises initiating the communication session upon receipt of a signal from the client device indicating that the client device is within a predetermined geographical range of at least one of the one or more video capture devices.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the user of the client device comprises confirming presence of the user via at least one of (i) recognition of one or more physical characteristics associated with the user or (ii) confirmation of a location of the client device relative to the one or more video capture devices.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the user of the client device comprises:

upon determining that the user is within a specified optical range of at least one of the one or more video capture devices, sending to the client device an identification gesture request unique for the user; and

upon receiving from the user one or more identification gestures corresponding to the identification gesture request within a predetermined identification time period via at least one of the one or more video capture devices, confirming presence of the user.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein negotiating parameters of the video feed comprises:

sending to the client device one or more video feed transmission terms and a confirmation gesture request for the user; and

upon receiving from the user one or more confirmation gestures corresponding to the confirmation gesture request within a predetermined confirmation time period via at least one of the one or more video capture devices, sending a confirmation notification to the client device.

11. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to:

establish a communication session between a client device and one or more video capture devices;

identify a user of the client device via the one or more video capture devices;

negotiate parameters of a video feed for transmission from the one or more video capture devices to the client device via the communication session; and

upon transmission of the video feed from the one or more video capture devices to the client device, facilitate control of the client device in response to any device control gesture received from the user based upon the video feed.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the program instructions further cause the computing device to:

discontinue the communication session and the video feed upon occurrence of a discontinuation event.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein establishing the communication session comprises initiating the communication session upon receiving from the user one or more initiation gestures via at least one of the one or more video capture devices.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein establishing the communication session comprises broadcasting availability of the one or more video capture devices to the client device upon determining that the user is within a specified optical range of at least one of the one or more video capture devices.

15. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein establishing the communication session comprises initiating the communication session upon receipt of a signal from the client device indicating that the client device is within a predetermined geographical range of at least one of the one or more video capture devices.

16. A system comprising:

a client device;

one or more video capture devices; and

a server including at least one processor and a memory storing an application program, which, when executed on the at least one processor, performs an operation comprising;

establishing a communication session between the client device and the one or more video capture devices;

identifying a user of the client device via the one or more video capture devices;

negotiating parameters of a video feed for transmission from the one or more video capture devices to the client device via the communication session; and

upon transmission of the video feed from the one or more video capture devices to the client device, facilitating control of the client device in response to any device control gesture received from the user based upon the video feed.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the operation further comprises:

discontinuing the communication session and the video feed upon occurrence of a discontinuation event.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein establishing the communication session comprises initiating the communication session upon receiving from the user one or more initiation gestures via at least one of the one or more video capture devices.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein establishing the communication session comprises broadcasting availability of the one or more video capture devices to the client device upon determining that the user is within a specified optical range of at least one of the one or more video capture devices.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein establishing the communication session comprises initiating the communication session upon receipt of a signal from the client device indicating that the client device is within a predetermined geographical range of at least one of the one or more video capture devices.