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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 1995
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1992
Tetsujiro Kondo, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhiro Fujimori, Kanagawa, JP;
Masashi Uchida, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Horishi, Kanagawa, JP;
Tsukasa Hashino, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an apparatus for judging a hand movement of an image, pixels where absolute values of differences between image data of respective pixels of blocks of a current frame and image data of representative point pixels of blocks of an earlier frame read out from a representative point memory satisfy a predetermined condition are judged by a condition judgment circuit to form a frequency distribution table corresponding to the judged result by a frequency distribution table formation circuit to calculate, on the basis of the frequency distribution table, the number of coordinates having a frequency value greater than a predetermined value in the vicinity of a coordinate designated by a motion vector of an image to judge the motion vector to result from a hand movement when the calculated value is less than a predetermined value.