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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1999
Yuji Takata, Fukuoka, JP;
Hideaki Matsuo, Fukuoka, JP;
Seiji Igi, Tokorozawa, JP;
Shan Lu, Tokorozawa, JP;
Yuji Nagashima, Fuchu, JP;
Other;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide a method of segmenting hand gestures which automatically segments hand gestures to be detected into words or apprehensible units structured by a plurality of words when recognizing the hand gestures without the user's presentation where to segment. Transition feature data in which a feature of a transition gesture being not observed during a gesture representing a word but is described when transiting from a gesture to another is previously stored. Thereafter, a motion of image corresponding to the part of body in which the transition gesture is observed is detected (step S,), the detected motion of image is compared with the transition feature data (step S,), and a time position where the transition gesture is observed is determined so as to segment the hand gestures (step S,).