Honda Access Corporation

Nippon Systemware Co., Ltd.

Teruo Uchimura

Atsuki Kakinuma

Toshiaki Hosogai

Tsuyoshi Kondou

Shinichi Horisaki

A gesture recognition apparatus capable of recognizing a hand by means of a binary image regardless of direction of light contacting the hand. A binarizing processing section binarizes an input image from a camera to a hand recognizing section to prepare a first binary image by a predetermined method. A rebinarizing processing section only rebinarizes a predetermined area of the input image to prepare a second binary image. A contraction processing section performs a contraction processing on the second binary image. The rebinarizing processing can increase the possibility of recognizing the hand by classifying a portion of the hand that was classified into black in the first binary image into white. The hand is determined to be recognizable if the hand can be recognized in the first binary image and/or in the second binary image.

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Tokyo, Japan

Teruo Uchimura