Gesture recognition system and glasses with gesture recognition function

• US 9,904,369 B2
• Filed: 06/27/2013
• Issued: 02/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PixArt Imaging Incorporated
• Original Assignee: PixArt Imaging Incorporated
• Inventors: Lai, Horng-Goung, Hsu, En-Feng, Hsieh, Meng-Huan, Huang, Yu-Hao, Chen, Nien-Tse
• Primary Examiner(s): Nawaz, Talha M
• Application Number:
  US13/929,061
• Publication Number:
  US 20140009623A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,706 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/188 Capturing isolated or intermittent images triggered by the occurrence of a predetermined event, e.g. an object reaching a predetermined position signal generation from motion picture films H04N5/253

Abstract

Glasses with gesture recognition function include a glasses frame and a gesture recognition system. The gesture recognition system is disposed on the glasses frame and configured to detect hand gestures in front of the glasses thereby generating a control command. The gesture recognition system transmits the control command to an electronic device to correspondingly control the electronic device.

Claims

1. Glasses, comprising:

a glasses frame comprising a left lens frame, a right lens frame and a connecting part connecting between the left lens frame and the right lens frame, wherein the left lens frame, the right lens frame and the connecting part are formed integrally, the connecting part has a constant width region which has a width smaller than a height of the right and left lens frames, and the constant width region connects only a part of adjacent edges of the right and left lens frames; and

a gesture recognition system embedded inside the constant width region of the connecting part of the glasses frame, the gesture recognition system comprising;

an illumination device disposed inside the constant width region of the connecting part and configured to provide infrared light to illuminate an object;

an image sensor disposed inside the constant width region of the connecting part and configured to capture a plurality of images containing a motion track of the object by capturing reflection of the infrared light reflected from the object;

wherein the constant width region connects the right and left lens frames along a transverse direction, and the illumination device and the image sensor are disposed adjacent to each other along a direction parallel to the transverse direction inside the constant width region of the connecting part;

a processor configured to process the images and recognize the motion track of the object to generate a control command; and

a transmission unit disposed on the glasses frame and configured to transmit the control command to an electronic device, which is separated from the glasses and has a display screen, to accordingly control the electronic device,

wherein the gesture recognition system is disposed outside of the electronic device controlled by the control command from the gesture recognition system.

2. The glasses as claimed in claim 1, wherein the glasses frame further comprises a left temple arm and a right temple arm formed integrally with the left lens frame, the right lens frame and the connecting part.

3. The glasses as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transmission unit is a wireless transmission unit.

4. The glasses as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control command comprises an ON/OFF command, a zooming command, a page-turning command, a volume command and a channel-selection command.

5. The glasses as claimed in claim 1, wherein the motion track of the object comprises an upward track, a downward track, a leftward track, a rightward track, a forward track, a backward track and a rotation track.

6. The glasses as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a switch device configured to turn on or turn off the gesture recognition system.

7. The glasses as claimed in claim 1, further comprising two lens embedded in the glasses frame and configured to directly display images.

8. The glasses as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic device is a television, a cell phone or a tablet computer.