Method and System for Video Interaction Based on Motion Swarms

• US 20110276922A1
• Filed: 05/06/2010
• Published: 11/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: UTI Limited Partnership
• Original Assignee: UTI Limited Partnership
• Inventors: Nguyen, Quoc Ai, Jacob, Christian Johann, Hushlak, Gerald, Boyd, Jeffrey Edwin
• Application Number:
  US12/775,345
• Publication Number:
  US 20110276922A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/833
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• 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 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/20 Movements or behaviour, e.g. gesture recognition recognition of facial expressions G06V40/16

Abstract

A system and method for generating a video display suitable for interaction with a public audience or group. The system comprises one or more video capture devices for capturing a scene, a module configured to extract one or parameters that describe a field of motion in the scene, and a module configured to generate a plurality of particles or a swarm of particles that are responsive or react to the motion field.

Claims

1. A method for video interaction, said method comprising the steps of:

generating a motion field;

simulating motion of a particle in said motion field;

inputting an input associated with one or more humans;

generating an interaction based on the simulated motion of said particle and said input associated with one or more humans; and

determining, using a processing device, a user defined control parameter in response to the interaction.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user defined control parameter is determined through an interface comprising video-graphic interface control.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the video-graphic interface control comprises a slider.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the video-graphic interface control comprises a button.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the video-graphic interface control comprises a dial.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the video-graphic interface control comprises a menu.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the menu comprises a video-graphic interface control selected from the group of graphical interface controls consisting of a slider, a button, and a dial.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the video-graphic interface control comprises a combination of a plurality of video-graphic interface sub-controls selected from the group of graphical interface sub-controls consisting of a slider, a button, and a dial.

9. A system for providing interaction between one or more participants and an image display, said system comprising:

a video capture device configured to capture a scene including the one or more participants;

a module configured to extract one or more parameters associated with a field of motion in said scene, wherein said field of motion is associated with the one or more participants;

a module configured to modify said scene in response to said field of motion;

a module configured to generate an image on the image display based on said scene as modified by said field of motion; and

a module configured to determine a user defined control parameter in response to the field of motion.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the user defined control parameter is determined through an interface comprising video-graphic interface control.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the video-graphic interface control comprises a slider.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the video-graphic interface control comprises a button.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the video-graphic interface control comprises a dial.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the video-graphic interface control comprises a menu.

15. A tangible computer program product comprising computer readable instructions, that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations comprising:

generating a motion field;

simulating motion of a particle in said motion field;

inputting an input associated with one or more humans;

generating an interaction based on the simulated motion of said particle and said input associated with one or more humans; and

determining a user defined control parameter in response to the interaction.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the user defined control parameter is determined through an interface comprising video-graphic interface control.

17. The computer program produce of claim 16, wherein the video-graphic interface control comprises a slider.

18. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the video-graphic interface control comprises a button.

19. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the video-graphic interface control comprises a dial.

20. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the video-graphic interface control comprises a menu.