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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2021
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Kohei Konishi, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a camera that shoots a user's hand raised up in the air, a HDD containing a plurality of hand gestures including actions of the specific finger making contact with another finger, and commands respectively associated with the plurality of hand gestures, a hand gesture recognizer that recognizes the hand gesture, from a plurality of shot images sequentially acquired from the camera, a command acquirer that acquires the command associated with the hand gesture recognized by the hand gesture recognizer, from the HDD, and a controller that performs an operation according to the command acquired by the command acquirer, on the position of a cursor on a screen of a display device.