Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Patrick Luke Olivier

Stephen Edward Hodges

Shahram Izadi

David Kim

Otmar Hilliges

Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton

Andrew William Fitzgibbon

Pushmeet Kohli

David G Molyneaux

David Alexander Butler

Jiawen Chen

Iason Oikonomidis

In one or more implementations, a static geometry model is generated, from one or more images of a physical environment captured using a camera, using one or more static objects to model corresponding one or more objects in the physical environment. Interaction of a dynamic object with at least one of the static objects is identified by analyzing at least one image and a gesture is recognized from the identified interaction of the dynamic object with the at least one of the static objects to initiate an operation of the computing device.

Gesture recognition techniques

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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Patrick Luke Olivier