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Method and apparatus for real-time gesture recognition

  • US 6,072,494 A
  • Filed: 10/15/1997
  • Issued: 06/06/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/15/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computer-implemented method of storing and recognizing gestures made by a moving subject within an image, the method including:

  • a) building a background model by obtaining at least one frame of an image;

    b) obtaining a data frame containing a subject performing part of a gesture;

    c) analyzing the data frame thereby determining particular coordinates of the subject at a particular time while the subject is performing the gesture;

    d) adding the particular coordinates to a frame data set;

    e) examining the particular coordinates such that the particular coordinates are compared to positional data making up a plurality of recognizable gestures, wherein a recognizable gesture is made up of at least one dimension such that the positional data describes dimensions of the recognized gesture;

    f) repeating b through e for a plurality of data frames; and

    g) determining whether the plurality of the data frames when examined in a particular sequence, conveys a subject gesture by the subject that resembles a recognizable gesture, thereby causing an operation based on a predetermined meaning of the recognizable gesture be performed by a computer.

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