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Gesture detection based on joint skipping

  • US 8,633,890 B2
  • Filed: 02/16/2010
  • Issued: 01/21/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a system comprising a computing environment coupled to a capture device for capturing user position, a method of generating pose information for use in determining whether a user has performed a given gesture, the method comprising:

  • (a) detecting via the capture device a location of a first skeletal joint of the user position;

    (b) detecting via the capture device a location of a second skeletal joint of the user position that is not a joint adjacent to the first skeletal joint; and

    (c) generating the pose information, directly including the location of the first skeletal joint relative the location of the second skeletal joint, for use in determining whether a user has performed a given gesture;

    wherein joint adjacency is determined along a user'"'"'s body.

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