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Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021

Filed:

Jan. 10, 2019
Applicants:

Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, TW;

Intellectual Property Innovation Corporation, Hsinchu, TW;

Inventors:

Hung-Pin Shih, Miaoli County, TW;

Chien-Ju Lee, Taoyuan, TW;

Heng-Yin Chen, Hsinchu County, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/042 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0425 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06F 2203/04104 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30196 (2013.01);
Abstract

A direction determination system and a direction determination method are provided. The direction determination system includes a display screen, at least one image capturing device and a processing device. The image capturing device is configured to capture image data including a plurality of users. The processing device is coupled to the display screen and the image capturing device to receive the image data, and detects a plurality of characteristics of the plurality of users according to the image data. The processing device performs corresponding pairing on the characteristics to obtain a characteristic group of each of the users. The processing device determines a pointing direction of each of the users toward the display screen according to at least two characteristics of the characteristic group of each of the users.


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