Interactive input system and method
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1. An interactive input system comprising:
- at least two imaging assemblies capturing image frames of a region of interest wherein the at least two imaging assemblies capturing images from different vantages, each imaging assembly comprising an image sensor and signal processing circuitry implemented on an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), image data acquired by said image sensor being pre-processed by said signal processing circuitry; and
processing structure processing pre-processed image data output by said imaging assemblies to determine a location of at least one pointer within the region of interest.
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Abstract
An interactive input system comprises at least two imaging assemblies capturing image frames of a region of interest from different vantages, each imaging assembly comprising an image sensor and signal processing circuitry implemented on an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), image data acquired by the image sensor being pre-processed by the signal processing circuitry; and processing structure processing pre-processed image data output by the imaging assemblies to determine the location of at least one pointer within the region of interest.
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1. An interactive input system comprising:
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at least two imaging assemblies capturing image frames of a region of interest wherein the at least two imaging assemblies capturing images from different vantages, each imaging assembly comprising an image sensor and signal processing circuitry implemented on an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), image data acquired by said image sensor being pre-processed by said signal processing circuitry; and processing structure processing pre-processed image data output by said imaging assemblies to determine a location of at least one pointer within the region of interest. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. An imaging assembly for an interactive input system comprising:
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an image sensor having a field of view looking into a region of interest; and processing circuitry receiving image data acquired by said image sensor and processing the image data, wherein said image sensor and processing circuitry are implemented on an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC); wherein said imaging assembly is configured to capture image frames in an image frame sequence and wherein said processing circuitry processes the image frames of the image frame sequence to identify regions of interest therein representing potential pointers by performing a plurality of vertical intensity profile calculations in parallel and comparing the results with threshold data; and
, the image frame sequence comprises one image frame captured when the region of interest is flooded with illumination and a plurality of image frames captured in the absence of the illumination, said processing circuitry generating difference image data using said one image frame and a background image captured in the absence of the illumination and performing the vertical intensity profile calculations using the difference image data and the background image. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. An interactive input system comprising:
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at least two imaging assemblies having fields of view encompassing a region of interest wherein the at least two imaging assemblies capturing images from different vantages, each imaging assembly capturing a sequence of image frames, one image frame being captured when the region of interest is flooded with illumination and a plurality of image frames being captured in the absence of the illumination, each imaging assembly having signal processing circuitry generating difference image data using said one image frame and a background image frame captured in the absence of the illumination and performing vertical intensity calculations using the difference image data and the background image thereby to identify one or more potential pointers; and processing structure processing the output of said imaging assemblies to determine a location of each pointer within the region of interest. - View Dependent Claims (36)
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37. An interactive input system comprising:
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at least two imaging assemblies capturing image frames of a region of interest that is surrounding by bezel segments from different vantages, each imaging assembly processing image data within a window of the captured image frames, the window having a shape generally conforming to the shape of a bezel including the bezel segments as it appears in the captured image frames; and processing structure processing the image data output by the imaging assemblies to determine a location of at least one pointer within the region of interest. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40)
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41. An imaging assembly for an interactive input system comprising:
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an image sensor having a field of view looking into a region of interest; and processing circuitry processing a sequence of image frames captured by the image sensor, one image frame being captured when the region of interest is flooded with backlight illumination and a plurality of image frames being captured in the absence of the backlight illumination, said processing circuitry generating difference image data using said one image frame and a background image captured in the absence of the backlight illumination and performing vertical intensity profile calculations using the difference image data and the background image thereby to identify one or more potential pointers in the image frames.
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