Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Iason Oikonomidis

Stephen Edward Hodges

Shahram Izadi

David Alexander Butler

David Kim

Otmar Hilliges

Patrick Luke Olivier

Jiawen Chen

A wearable sensor for tracking articulated body parts is described such as a wrist-worn device which enables 3D tracking of fingers and optionally also the arm and hand without the need to wear a glove or markers on the hand. In an embodiment a camera captures images of an articulated part of a body of a wearer of the device and an articulated model of the body part is tracked in real time to enable gesture-based control of a separate computing device such as a smart phone, laptop computer or other computing device. In examples the device has a structured illumination source and a diffuse illumination source for illuminating the articulated body part. In some examples an inertial measurement unit is also included in the sensor to enable tracking of the arm and hand

Wearable sensor for tracking articulated body-parts

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Iason Oikonomidis