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MOTION-TRACKING GAME CONTROLLER

  • US 20090209343A1
  • Filed: 02/15/2008
  • Published: 08/20/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for tracking the motion of a game controller and a player'"'"'s body part, the system comprising:

  • a webcam positioned to have a view of at least one of the game controller and the body part,a sensor coupled to the game controller, the sensor configured to generate movement data,a computer-vision module to process a video signal from the webcam, and in response to the video signal, to track first predetermined degrees of freedom of motion of the body part,an image-processing module to process the video signal, and in response to the video signal, to generate feature location data based on a location of at least one identifiable visual feature, anda data-fusion module to receive the feature location data from the image-processing module, and the movement data from the sensor, and estimate second predetermined degrees of freedom of a motion of the game controller.

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